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Entitled 'Pen Work, Field Work, Dream Work: A Reading with Commentary by Seamus Heaney', Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney will read poems from different periods of his work over the last forty years in the lecture. Beginning with the first poem in his first book and ending with the last one in his much anticipated new volume, District and Circle, due out this year, the poet will trace his preoccupations and imaginative procedures over the years. Born in Northern Ireland, heir to a native Irish tradition yet formed by an education in English literature, Heaney will consider some of the ways in which his writing registered ‘the music of what happened’ in himself, his country and the world.
Seamus Heaney lives in Dublin and is currently the Ralph Waldo Emerson Poet in Residence at Harvard University. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995 'for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past'. Once deemed by Robert Lowell 'the most important Irish poet since Yeats', Heaney has combined in his work personal memories with images of Irish heritage and the landscape of Northern Ireland. He has published numerous individual collections of poems, most recently The Spirit Level (Whitbread Award Winner) and Electric Light. He has also published acclaimed collections of essays, a selection of his literary journalism, Finders Keepers and his version of the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf (Whitbread Award Winner).
The lecture will take place on Monday, March 6, at HKU's Loke Yew Hall, beginning at 5:30pm.
John Banville, winner of the 2005 Man Booker Prize for his novel The Sea, will share his reflections on the power and unique language of fiction in the Man Booker Prize Distinguished Lecture 2006.
The profoundly moving, beautifully crafted prose has led Banville being heralded as 'a master at the top of his game' and 'one of the great fictional stylists of our time'. Born in Wexford in Ireland in 1945, Banville was educated at a Christian Brothers' school and St Peter's College in Wexford. He currently lives in Dublin and was the Literary Editor of The Irish Times for eleven years. Banville is a philosophical novelist concerned with the nature of perception, the conflict between imagination and reality, and the existential isolation of the individual. His other works include Doctor Copernicus (James Tait Black Memorial Prize winner), Kepler (Guardian Fiction Prize winner), The Book of Evidence (shortlisted for the 1989 Booker Prize and winner of the Guinness Peat Aviation Award) and one of his finest novels, The Untouchable, in which the main character is based on the art historian and spy Anthony Blunt.
The lecture, entitled 'Fiction and the Dream', will be held on Monday, March 13, at HKU's Rayson Huang Theatre, at 5:30pm. There will be a book-signing and reception following the end of the lecture at 6:30pm.
Members of the media are cordially invited to attend the above events. For further enquiries, please contact Elsie Leung of HKU's External Relations Office at 2859 2600.
Literary Heavyweights Speak at HKU
27 Feb 2006
In collaboration to the Man Hong Kong International Literary Festival 2006, the Department of English of The University of Hong Kong (HKU) proudly presents two distinguished lectures which feature two literary heavyweights.
Entitled 'Pen Work, Field Work, Dream Work: A Reading with Commentary by Seamus Heaney', Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney will read poems from different periods of his work over the last forty years in the lecture. Beginning with the first poem in his first book and ending with the last one in his much anticipated new volume, District and Circle, due out this year, the poet will trace his preoccupations and imaginative procedures over the years. Born in Northern Ireland, heir to a native Irish tradition yet formed by an education in English literature, Heaney will consider some of the ways in which his writing registered ‘the music of what happened’ in himself, his country and the world.
Seamus Heaney lives in Dublin and is currently the Ralph Waldo Emerson Poet in Residence at Harvard University. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995 'for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past'. Once deemed by Robert Lowell 'the most important Irish poet since Yeats', Heaney has combined in his work personal memories with images of Irish heritage and the landscape of Northern Ireland. He has published numerous individual collections of poems, most recently The Spirit Level (Whitbread Award Winner) and Electric Light. He has also published acclaimed collections of essays, a selection of his literary journalism, Finders Keepers and his version of the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf (Whitbread Award Winner).
The lecture will take place on Monday, March 6, at HKU's Loke Yew Hall, beginning at 5:30pm.
John Banville, winner of the 2005 Man Booker Prize for his novel The Sea, will share his reflections on the power and unique language of fiction in the Man Booker Prize Distinguished Lecture 2006.
The profoundly moving, beautifully crafted prose has led Banville being heralded as 'a master at the top of his game' and 'one of the great fictional stylists of our time'. Born in Wexford in Ireland in 1945, Banville was educated at a Christian Brothers' school and St Peter's College in Wexford. He currently lives in Dublin and was the Literary Editor of The Irish Times for eleven years. Banville is a philosophical novelist concerned with the nature of perception, the conflict between imagination and reality, and the existential isolation of the individual. His other works include Doctor Copernicus (James Tait Black Memorial Prize winner), Kepler (Guardian Fiction Prize winner), The Book of Evidence (shortlisted for the 1989 Booker Prize and winner of the Guinness Peat Aviation Award) and one of his finest novels, The Untouchable, in which the main character is based on the art historian and spy Anthony Blunt.
The lecture, entitled 'Fiction and the Dream', will be held on Monday, March 13, at HKU's Rayson Huang Theatre, at 5:30pm. There will be a book-signing and reception following the end of the lecture at 6:30pm.
Members of the media are cordially invited to attend the above events. For further enquiries, please contact Elsie Leung of HKU's External Relations Office at 2859 2600.
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