Derek Walcott

Sir

Derek Walcott

Walcott at an honorary dinner in Amsterdam, 20 May 2008
Walcott at an honorary dinner in Amsterdam, 20 May 2008
BornDerek Alton Walcott
(1930-01-23)23 January 1930
Castries, Colony of Saint Lucia, British Windward Islands, British Empire
Died17 March 2017(2017-03-17) (aged 87)
Cap Estate, Gros-Islet, Saint Lucia
OccupationPoet, playwright, professor
GenrePoetry and plays
Literary movementPostcolonialism
Notable worksDream on Monkey Mountain (1967), Omeros (1990), White Egrets (2007)
Notable awardsNobel Prize in Literature
1992
T. S. Eliot Prize
2010
Children3
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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] In addition to winning the Nobel Prize, Walcott received many literary awards over the course of his career, including an Obie Award in 1971 for his play Dream on Monkey Mountain, a MacArthur Foundation "genius" award, a Royal Society of Literature Award, the Queen's Medal for Poetry, the inaugural OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature,[3] the 2010 T. S. Eliot Prize for his book of poetry White Egrets[4] and the Griffin Trust For Excellence in Poetry Lifetime Recognition Award in 2015.

  1. ^ "Derek Walcott – Biographical". Nobel Foundation. 1992. Archived from the original on 17 June 2018. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  2. ^ "Derek Walcott 1930–2017". Chicago, IL: Poetry Foundation. Archived from the original on 2 April 2016. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  3. ^ "Derek Walcott wins OCM Bocas Prize" Archived 15 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Trinidad Express Newspapers, 30 April 2011.
  4. ^ Charlotte Higgins, "TS Eliot prize goes to Derek Walcott for 'moving and technically flawless' work". Archived 12 June 2023 at the Wayback Machine The Guardian, 24 January 2011.