Nobel Prize winning poet Seamus Heaney holds a copy of his book, "The Spirit Level," at an awards banquet in London Tuesday, Jan. 21, 1997 before it was announced that it has won the Whitbread Book of the Year 1996 award. Heaney, born in Northern Ireland, now resident in Dublin, won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1995. (AP Photo/Stefan Rousseau, PA)