Derek Walcott
- Sir Derek Alton Walcott
- Derek Alton Walcott
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- Walcott, Derek
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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Date of birth
- 1930-01-23
- Place of birth
- Saint Lucia
- Date of death
- 2017-03-17
- Place of death
- Saint Lucia
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Sir Derek Alton Walcott OM (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 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.
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- 2025-09-17