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Michael Longley was born on 27 July, 1939 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, is an Irish poet (born 1939). Discover Michael Longley's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 84 years old?
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Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK |
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Michael Longley, (born 27 July 1939, Belfast, Northern Ireland), is an Irish poet.
One of twin boys, Michael Longley was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, to English parents, Longley was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, and subsequently read Classics at Trinity College, Dublin, where he edited Icarus.
Gorse Fires (1991) won the Whitbread Poetry Prize.
He holds honorary doctorates from Queen's University Belfast (1995) and Trinity College, Dublin (1999) and was the 2001 recipient of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.
The Weather in Japan (2000) won the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Hawthornden Prize.
He was the Ireland Professor of Poetry from 2007 to 2010, a cross-border academic post set up in 1998, previously held by John Montague, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, and Paul Durcan.
North American editions of Longley's work are published by Wake Forest University Press.
Over 50 years, he has spent much time in Carrigskeewaun, County Mayo, which has inspired much of his poetry.
His wife, Edna, is a critic on modern Irish and British poetry.
They have three children.
An atheist, Longley describes himself as a "sentimental" disbeliever.
Longley was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours.
Longley won a 2011 London Awards for Art and Performance.
His collection A Hundred Doors won the Poetry Now Award in September 2012.
His twin brother, Peter, died in 2013/14.
On 14 January 2014, he participated in the BBC Radio 3 series The Essay – Letters to a Young Poet.
Taking Rainer Maria Rilke's classic text Letters to a Young Poet as inspiration, leading poets wrote a letter to a protege.
Longley has provided readings of his poetry for the Irish Poetry Reading Archive (UCD).
Longley dedicated the second half of The Stairwell (2014), his tenth collection, to him.
His 2014 collection, The Stairwell, won the 2015 International Griffin Poetry Prize.
In 2015, he received the Ulster Tatler Lifetime Achievement Award.
In 2015 Longley was elected a Freeman of the City of Belfast.
He was awarded the PEN Pinter Prize in 2017.
The Chair of the judges, Don Paterson, said: "For decades now his effortlessly lyric and fluent poetry has been wholly suffused with the qualities of humanity, humility and compassion, never shying away from the moral complexity that comes from seeing both sides of an argument."
It also brought him the inaugural Yakamochi Medal in 2018.
In 2018, he was made an honorary fellow of Trinity College Dublin.
