Sir Derek Walcott | |
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![]() Walcott at an honorary dinner in Amsterdam, 20 May 2008 | |
Born | Derek Alton Walcott 23 January 1930 Castries, Colony of Saint Lucia, British Windward Islands, British Empire |
Died | 17 March 2017 Cap Estate, Gros-Islet, Saint Lucia | (aged 87)
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 2010 |
Children | 3 |
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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.