Anna Jansson (21) has been given the Milton Violin for use during her tenure.

The grants have been delivered through the Arts Council’s National Lottery Project Funding.

Float is produced by Crybaby Productions and written by emerging playwrights Orla Graham and Kirby Thompson.

The acclaimed Belfast poet died last month aged 85.

The initiative aims to shine a light on theatre and dance works created by artists and arts organisations from Northern Ireland.

The Co Down novelist will be based at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast for two years.