Michael Longley: Belfast poet wins €250,000 Feltrinelli Poetry Prize

The Belfast-born poet Michael Longley has been awarded a €250,000 European arts award.Previous winners of the prize include WH Auden, Eugenio Montale and John Ashbery.

The Accademia dei Lincei said Mr Longley had won for "the extraordinary relevance of his themes and their cultural implications, as well as the very high stylistic quality of his oeuvre". "But with his poetry he has also addressed the seduction, conquest, and fascination of love, as well as the shock of war in all ages, the tragedy of the Holocaust and of the gulags, and the themes of loss, grief and pity."The Belfast native is the son of an English soldier who fought in World War One - both of his parents were Londoners who moved to Northern Ireland before his birth.

His writing career began in his early teens when he "fell in love very deeply" with a girl from a nearby school, Methodist College.Longley was among the artists introduced to the Queen and Irish president in 2012 when the monarch shook hands with Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness for the first time

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