Writers
C.S. Lewis
Novelist & poet, best known for his books - The Chronicles of NarniaSeamus Heaney
Poet, playwright & lecturer, he won the 1995 Nobel prize for literature. The library at QUB is named in his honourSamuel Beckett
Novelist, playwright, theatre director & poet. The 1969 Nobel prize for literature winner wrote in both English & FrenchBrian Friel
Dramatist & short story writer, he had 24 published plays and was the co-founder of the Field Day Theatre CompanyJohn Hewitt
Poet who was appointed the first writer in residence at QUB in 1976 and lives on through the annual John Hewitt Summer SchoolSinead Morrissey
Poet who won the T.S. Eliot prize for her fifth collection in 2014 & the Forward Prize for poetry in 2017Show More