Derek Mahon (Poet ) was born in Northern Ireland on a Sunday, November 23, 1941 🎈. Derek Mahon is 83 years old. He is a Sagittarius ♐ and was born in the Year of the Serpent 🐍.
Notable for his Irish Times Poetry Now Award-winning collections Harbour Lights (2005) and Life on Earth (2008), Mahon is also recognized for his translations of the work of Moliere, Jean Racine, and Sophocles.
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| FULL NAME: | Derek Mahon |
| BIRTH DATE: | November 23, 1941 |
| BIRTHPLACE: | Northern Ireland |
| AGE: | 83 years old |
| NATIONALITY: | Northern Irish |
| ETHNICITY: | Unknown |
| ZODIAC: | Sagittarius |
| CHINESE ZODIAC: | Serpent |
About
Derek Mahon is a Poet. Derek was born in the 1940s, in the middle of the Silent Generation generation. Silent Generation are individuals born between 1925 and 1945. This generation is known for Jazz, Martin Luther King, Jr., Frank Sinatra, Malcolm X, Gone With The Wind, Mickey Mouse, Andy Warhol, Clint Eastwood, Bob Dylan. The Silent Generation has experienced critical historical events, including the Korean War, The Cold War, the McCarthy Hearings, and the Space Race.
Born into a Protesant, working-class family, he spent his youth in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Find out who is Derek Mahon dating right now.
He published some of his early work in the Royal Belfast Academical Institution’s school journal and subsequently studied at both Trinity College, Dublin and Paris’ Sorbonne. His first poetry collection, Night Crossing, was published in 1967.
DID YOU KNOW Several of his poems fall into the ekphrasis genre, meaning that they interpret visual artworks through language.
FACT His poems’ metrical forms resemble those employed by the nineteenth-century poet Gerard Manley Hopkins.
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Birthday
Currently, Derek Mahon is 83 years old. His next birthday is away. Derek will celebrate his 84th birthday on a Sunday, November 23rd. He shares a birthday with everyone who was born on November 23, 1941. Below is the countdown to his next birthday.
Zodiac
Derek Mahon’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius. People born between the dates of November 22nd to December 21st belong to the ninth sign in the zodiac, Sagittarius. Libras are known for being loyal, optimistic, and intellectual. Aries is the most compatible sign for Sagittarius.
Famous Sagittarius celebrities are Chadwick Boseman, Nicki Minaj, Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, Brad Pitt, Rita Ora, Chrissy Teigen, Jay-Z, Jean Michel Basquiat, and Nostradamus. Sagittarius ruling planet is Jupiter. Astrologically, Jupiter represents luck, fortune, and success.
Derek Mahon was born in the Year of the Serpent. Serpent symbolizes fertility and rebirth in Chinese culture. People born in the Year of the Snake are intelligent, enigmatic, intuitive, charming, and beautiful. They can also sometimes be hedonistic, vain, malicious, overly materialistic, and duplicitous.
This year is the Year of the Dragon.
DID YOU KNOW United States life expectancy is about 78.5 years.
Derek Mahon is a 83 years old Poet, born in November, in the Year of the Serpent (1941), and is a Sagittarius. His life path number is 22. Derek’s birthstone is Topaz and Citrine, and his birth flower is Chrysanthemum. You may also check out all famous birthdays in November or specifically birthdays on November 23.
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