ZUM TOD DES IRISCHEN DICHTERS JOHN MONTAGUE
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10.12.2016 Der am 28. Februar 1929 in Brooklyn (New York City) geborene irische Dichter und Schriftsteller John Patrick Montague (Bild) ist am 10. Dezember 2016 in Nizza (Frankreich) gestorben.
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One of the best known Irish poets, he was made Ireland's first professor of poetry in 1998.
http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/irish-poet-john-montague-dies-in-france-aged-87-1.2901271
Tributes paid to renowned poet John Montague
https://www.rte.ie/news/2016/1210/837929-john-montague/
President Michael D Higgins said: "The death of John Montague represents another great loss to Irish letters, a further break with a rich body of work that was the gift of poets and dramatists, to Ulster, Ireland and the world."
His poetry included Forms of Exile (1958); Poisoned Lands (1961); A Chosen Light (1967); Tides (1970) and The Rough Field (1972). His novella, The Lost Notebook, won the first Hughes Award in 1987.
He also published three collections of stories: Death of a Chieftain (1964), An Occasion of Sin (1992) and A Love Present (1997).
He won the Marten Toonder Award in 1977, a Guggenheim fellowship in 1980, and the Ireland Funds Literary Award in 1995.
John Montague stands alongside Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley as one of the most important Northern Irish poets of his generation.
He also led a remarkable life, and could call Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, the USA and France home.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-38274959
Irlands Präsident Michael D. Higgins bezeichnete Montague in einer Würdigung als "einen unserer hervorragendsten Dichter". In seinem Werk seien "alle Themen des vergangenen Jahrhunderts präsent - Trennung, Exil, Konflikt", schrieb Higgins.
Mehr:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/john-montague
