Derek Walcott

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Derek Walcott

West Indian poet

Also known as: Derek Alton Walcott

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In full:: Derek Alton Walcott

Born:: January 23, 1930, Castries, Saint Lucia

Died:: March 17, 2017, Cap Estate (aged 87)

Awards And Honors:: Nobel Prize (1992)

Notable Works:: “Dream on Monkey Mountain”; “In a Green Night: Poems 1948–1960”; “Midsummer”; “Pantomime”; “Sea Grapes”; “Selected Poems”; “The Castaway”; “The Fortunate Traveler”; “The Gulf”; “The Star-Apple Kingdom”; “Ti-Jean and His Brothers”

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Derek Walcott (born January 23, 1930, Castries, Saint Lucia—died March 17, 2017, Cap Estate) 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 Indies in Jamaica. He began writing poetry at an early age, taught at schools in Saint Lucia and Grenada, and contributed articles and reviews to periodicals in Trinidad and Jamaica. Productions of his plays began in Saint Lucia in 1950, and he studied theatre in New ...(100 of 499 words)

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