Poet and Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney has won a Truman Capote Award for literary criticism in the United States.
Mr Heaney, who won the Nobel literature prize in 1995, will receive a €43,600 ($50,000) prize for the anthology Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001.
The University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, which administers the prize on behalf of Capote's literary estate, announced the award yesterday in New York.
The author of such poetry collections as Death of a Naturalist and Door Into the Dark, Mr Heaney has also won acclaim for his translation of Beowulf.
Books of general literary criticism in English, published during the past four years, were eligible for nomination.
The Capote award was established in 1994 in memory of the celebrated American novelist and journalist who died in 1984.