Indyplus video: Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney dies aged 74

Friday 30 August 2013 17:42 BST

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Born the eldest of nine children in Co Derry, Northern Ireland, Heaney won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995 and was made a Commandeur de L'Ordre des Arts et Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture in 1996.

Watch him discuss discuss his passion for storytelling in the video below:

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