Costa Book Awards
1 appearances
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Edition 25 (1995) Winner
Bernard O'Donoghue
バーナード・オドノヒュー
Bānādo Odonohyū
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1945-12-14 （Cullen, County Cork, Ireland）
- Nationality
- Irish
- Languages
- English, Irish
- Religion
- Catholic
- Residence History
- Cullen, County Cork, Ireland (birthplace, farm) → Manchester, England → Oxford, England
Career
- Occupations
- poet, academic, author
- Active Years
- 1970-2024
- Affiliations
- Magdalen College, Oxford (1971-1995), Wadham College, Oxford (1995-2011, emeritus)
- Memberships
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL, 1999), Honorary President of the Irish Literary Society of London (2014)
- Influenced By
- Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Chaucer, Anglo-Saxon poets
- Influenced
- Alan Hollinghurst, Mick Imlah
- Nominations
- T. S. Eliot Prize shortlist (2011, 2016)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Bede's College, Manchester | — | General | — | 1961頃-1965 | United Kingdom |
| Lincoln College, Oxford | — | English literature | — | 1965- | United Kingdom |
| Lincoln College, Oxford | — | Medieval studies | — | ポストグラデュエイト | United Kingdom |
St Bede's College, Manchester
General
Period:
1961頃-1965
Country:
United Kingdom
Catholic school
Lincoln College, Oxford
English literature
Period:
1965-
Year of Graduation:
1968
Country:
United Kingdom
From Beowulf to Virginia Woolf
Lincoln College, Oxford
Medieval studies
Period:
ポストグラデュエイト
Country:
United Kingdom
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Whitbread Prize for Poetry | Gunpowder | Poetry | Whitbread | winner |
| 2009 | Cholmondeley Award | — | — | The Society of Authors | winner |
Whitbread Prize for Poetry
1995
Work:
Gunpowder
Category:
Poetry
Organization:
Whitbread
Result:
winner
Cholmondeley Award
2009
Organization:
The Society of Authors
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Gunpowder
1995 PoetryPoetry collection that won the Whitbread Prize for Poetry.
memoryIrelanddeath
Here Nor There
1999 PoetryFeatures medieval art on cover, themes of exile and return.
exilemedieval
Outliving
2003 PoetryPoetry collection recurring death theme.
deathfather
Selected Poems
2008 PoetrySelected poems recalling rural Cork and exile.
rural lifeexile
Farmer's Cross
2011 PoetryIncludes translation of The Wanderer, shortlisted for T.S. Eliot Prize.
wandering
The Seasons of Cullen Church
2016 PoetrySeasons at Cullen Church, shortlisted for T.S. Eliot Prize.
homelandfather
Bibliography
- Razorblades and Pencils
- Poaching Rights
- The Absent Signifier
- The Weakness
- Gunpowder
- Here Nor There
- Outliving
- Selected Poems
- Farmer's Cross
- The Seasons of Cullen Church
- The Courtly Love Tradition
- Thomas Hoccleve Selected Poems
- Seamus Heaney and the Language of Poetry
- Oxford Irish Quotations
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (trans.)
- The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney
Translations by Author
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (from Middle English)
- Zbyněk Hejda: A Stay in a Sanatorium (trans.)
- The Wanderer (trans.)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- story primary over ideasmedieval influencesconcise forms
- Recurring Motifs
- deathfather's deathrural Cork lifeexile and impossibility of return
Legacy
Contemporary Irish poet and medieval English literature academic. Winner of Whitbread Poetry Prize, multiple T.S. Eliot Prize shortlists. Taught at Oxford, known for Seamus Heaney studies.
Quotes
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It's good to have two places. Two perspectives. When you're in one, you think you belong to the other one.
Source: Irish Times interview (2000) -
The story is always primary.
Source: Quote via Brendan Kennelly, interview
Trivia
- Father was a reluctant farmer who died suddenly when he was 16, family moved to Manchester.
- Learned Irish from age 5 at local school.
- Served Mass parroting Latin from age 10, inclined to medieval.
- Former students include actress Rosamund Pike, writer Alan Hollinghurst.