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Derek Mahon
Derek Mahon is an Irish poet. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, but has lived in several cities around the world. When he died, it was noted that "his influence in the Irish poetry community, the literary world and society at large, and his legacy, was immense". Irish President Michael D Higgins de Mahon "he shares with his northern colleagues the ability to combine classic and contemporary, but he also offers an aspect that does not hide cruelty and evil."
BornNovember 23, 1941, Belfast, Northern Ireland
DiedOctober 1, 2020, Cork, Ireland
OccupationPoet, Journalist
GenrePoetry
Literary movementModernism

About Derek Mahon

Poet Derek Mahon was born in Northern Ireland on November 23, 1941. He dies at the age of 78, on October 1, 2020.

Mahon is known for his translations of Moliere, Playwright Jean Racine, and Sophocles, as well as his Irish Times Poetry Now Award-winning books Harbour Lights (2005) and Life on Earth (2008).

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Derek Mahon before becoming famous

Derek Mahon was born in the Zodiac sign Sagittarius (The Centaur/Archer), and 1941 is also the year of Serpent (蛇) in the Chinese Zodiac.

He later studied at both Trinity College, Dublin, and the Sorbonne in Paris, and published some of his early work in the Royal Belfast Academical Institution's school journal. In 1967, he published his first collection of poetry, Night Crossing.

Achievement of Derek Mahon

Several of his poems are ekphrastic, which means they use language to understand visual works of art.

Derek Mahon's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

He grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland, as the son of a Protesant working-class family.

Derek Mahon on Social Media

Derek Mahon Collabed with

The metrical forms of his poems are similar to those used by nineteenth-century poet Poet Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Derek Mahon Income & Net worth

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Latest information about Derek Mahon updated on March 16 2023.