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Derek Walcott. Sir Derek Alton Walcott KCSL OBE OM OCC (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. [1] His works include the Homeric epic poem Omeros (1990), which many critics view "as Walcott's major achievement." [2]
Learn about the life and achievements of Derek Walcott, a Nobel Prize-winning poet and playwright from the Caribbean. Explore his themes of language, power, and place, and his epic poem Omeros.
Apr 15, 2024 · Derek Walcott (born January 23, 1930, Castries, Saint Lucia—died March 17, 2017, Cap Estate) was a West Indian poet and playwright noted for works that explore the Caribbean cultural experience. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992. Walcott was educated at St. Mary’s College in Saint Lucia and at the University of the West ...
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Mar 17, 2017 · Derek Alton Walcott was born on Jan. 23, 1930, in Castries, a port city on the island of St. Lucia. His father, Warwick, a schoolteacher and watercolorist, died when he was an infant, and he was ...
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Mar 17, 2017 · Derek Walcott was a complicated person and a great poet, and often those things are not divisible. The time I spent with him and his beautiful German-born partner, Sigrid Nama, in Derek’s native ...
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Learn about the life and work of Derek Walcott, the first Caribbean poet to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Explore his poems, plays, essays, and influences from Shakespeare to Eliot.
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