Derek Walcott
Sir Derek Walcott | |
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 Walcott at an honorary dinner in Amsterdam, 20 May 2008 | |
| Born | Derek Alton Walcott 23 January 1930 |
| Died | 17 March 2017 (aged 87) Cap Estate, Gros-Islet, Saint Lucia |
| Occupations | Poet, playwright, professor |
| Children | 3, including Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw |
| Writing career | |
| Genres | Poetry and plays |
| Notable works | Dream on Monkey Mountain (1967), Omeros (1990), White Egrets (2007) |
| Notable awards | Nobel Prize in Literature 1992 T. S. Eliot Prize 2010 |
Movement | Postcolonialism |
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Sir Derek Alton Walcott (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright.
He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works include the Homeric epic poem Omeros (1990), which many critics view "as Walcott's major achievement." In addition to winning the Nobel Prize, Walcott received many literary awards over the course of his career, including the Guinness Award for Poetry, W. H. Smith Literary Award, 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, the 2010 T. S. Eliot Prize for his book of poetry White Egrets and the Griffin Trust For Excellence in Poetry Lifetime Recognition Award in 2015.