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Derek Walcott
Saint Lucian poet and playwright (1930–2017)
Sir Derek Walcott KCSLOBEOMOCC | |
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Walcott at an honorary dinner in Amsterdam, 20 May 2008 | |
| Born | Derek Alton Walcott (1930-01-23)23 January 1930 Castries, Colony of Saint Lucia, British Windward Islands, British Empire |
| Died | 17 March 2017(2017-03-17) (aged 87) Cap Estate, Gros-Islet, Saint Lucia |
| Occupation | Poet, playwright, professor |
| Genre | Poetry and plays |
| Literary movement | Postcolonialism |
| Notable works | Dream on Monkey Mountain (1967), Omeros (1990), White Egrets (2007) |
| Notable awards | Nobel Prize in Literature 1992 T. S. Eliot Prize |
| Children | 3 |
Sir Derek Alton WalcottKCSLOBEOMOCC (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 Homericepic poemOmeros (1990), which many critics view "as Walcott's major achievement."[2] In addition to