Robin Jenkins (1912–2005) was hailed in 2000 by the Scotsman as "the greatest living fiction-writer in Scotland." His first novel was published in 1951 and more than 30 works of fiction followed, many of which have been graced with literary awards and have remained in print for decades. Seamus Heaney is an Irish poet, writer, and lecturer. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Golden Wreath of Poetry, the T. S. Eliot Prize, and two Whitbread prizes.