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The 60-year-old writer equalled the record of his friend and rival, the late Ted Hughes, after his translation of Anglo Saxon epic poem Beowulf was named the best book of 1999 at a ceremony in The Brewery, near London's Barbican.
BBC: Heaney wins Whitbread book prize
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The rhythm and rhyme helped aid the memories of those who passed along the stories, a process that also gave us the beautiful imagery in the Iliad, The Odyssey, Beowulf, the Vedas, the Bible, The Epic of Gilgamesh, and many others.
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"Beowulf, " the original action-adventure yarn -- it's the oldest epic narrative verse written in the English language, dating back to the eighth century -- has been spiked with enough risque business and healthy splatterings of gore to make it unsuitable for kids (the rating is PG-13).
CNN: Review: Exciting 'Beowulf' jumps off the screen