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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...
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  • Omeros is an epic poem by Saint Lucian writer Derek Walcott, first published in 1990. The work is divided into seven "books" containing a total of sixty-four...
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    1992 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Saint Lucian poet Derek Walcott (1930–2017) "for a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a...
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  • when he would finish. He collaborated with Nobel Prize-winning poet Derek Walcott on new narration for the film. American History X was due to premiere...
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    Derek Walcott Square (formerly Columbus Square) is a public square and park located in central Castries, Saint Lucia. The square is bounded by Bourbon...
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  • language. Two West Indian writers have won the Nobel Prize for literature: Derek Walcott (1992), born in St. Lucia, resident mostly in Trinidad during the 1960s...
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    winner of the 1979 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, as well as of Derek Walcott, winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize for Literature. In 1650, the fort auprès...
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  • Dream on Monkey Mountain (category Plays by Derek Walcott)
    is a play by the Nobel Prize-winning St. Lucian poet and playwright Derek Walcott. It was first published in 1970 with a collection of short plays entitled...
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  • Derek Walcott, included in his Collected Poems, 1948–1984 (1986). NPR's Weekend Edition featured a reading of the poem in March 2017. Plays by Derek Walcott...
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    "from The Prodigal by Derek Walcott | [Desire and disease commingling] by Derek Walcott | [O Serbian sibyl, prophetess] by Derek Walcott". Poetry Magazine...
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  • poetry of West Indian poet Derek Walcott. In a 1965 paper, "The Figure of Crusoe", writing about the poem "Crusoe's Journal", Walcott notes: It is not the Crusoe...
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  • The Capeman (category Plays by Derek Walcott)
    musical play with music by Paul Simon and book and lyrics by Simon and Derek Walcott based on the life of convicted murderer Salvador Agrón. The play opened...
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    Egypt, Octavio Paz from Mexico, Nadine Gordimer from South Africa, Derek Walcott from St. Lucia, Toni Morrison, the first African-American on the list...
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    and Paterson by William Carlos Williams are examples of modern epics. Derek Walcott won a Nobel prize in 1992 to a great extent on the basis of his epic...
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    works are widely studied (and translated into other languages) are: Derek Walcott (who won the 1992 Nobel Prize for Literature), Kamau Brathwaite, Edouard...
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    and Derek Walcott's Omeros (1990) a more predictable success. The form has been particularly popular in the Caribbean, with work since 1980 by Walcott, Edward...
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  • Derek Walcott, whose Selected Poems (2007) Baugh edited, having in 1978 authored the first book-length study of the Nobel-winning poet's work, Derek Walcott:...
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    2020). "Derek Walcott (1930–2017)". Retrieved 7 November 2020. Heavily influenced by the modernist poets T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, Walcott became internationally...
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  • co-edited several books. Walcott-Hackshaw is the daughter of Nobel Prize laureate Derek Walcott. Born in Trinidad in 1964, Walcott-Hackshaw studied in the...
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    (1993) Peter Tosh (2012, posthumously) Cicely Williams Fidel Castro Sir Derek Walcott Manley Elisha West, co-inventor of Canasol "National Awards of Jamaica"...
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  • Sharon Olds, Stag's Leap 2011 – John Burnside, Black Cat Bone 2010 – Derek Walcott, White Egrets 2009 – Philip Gross, The Water Table 2008 – Jen Hadfield...
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  • Beatles Derek Turner (journalist) (born 1964), Irish journalist Derek Walcott (1930–2017), West Indian poet, playwright, writer and visual artist Derek Wood...
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  • mentioned in The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste. La Diablesse is referred by Derek Walcott in his play Dream on Monkey Mountain.. La Diablesse is mentioned repeatedly...
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    had debuted, including George Lamming, Samuel Selvon, the 19-year-old Derek Walcott and, earlier, Naipaul himself, was being transferred to Accra to manage...
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    Aleksandrovich Brodsky". Brodsky's close friend, the Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, memorialized him in his collection The Prodigal, in 2004. I was born...
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    Thiong'o who has written novels, plays and short stories in English. Poet Derek Walcott, from St Lucia in the Caribbean, was another Nobel Prize winner in 1992...
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  • of Nobel laureate Derek Walcott. Roderick Aldon Walcott was born in Castries, St Lucia, the son of Alix (Maarlin) and Warwick Walcott. He was educated...
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    taught the stones to draw correctly." Caribbean author and scholar Derek Walcott based his book-length poem, Tiepolo's Hound (2000), on Pissarro's life...
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    such as Günter Grass, Martin Amis, Saul Bellow, Nadine Gordimer, and Derek Walcott. Another major supporter of Rushdie, Christopher Hitchens, said that...
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  • Sisson Stevie Smith Jon Stallworthy R. S. Thomas Charles Tomlinson Derek Walcott Richard Wilbur "D.J. Enright is soon to bring out his ‘Oxford Book of...
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