Biography
Sir Derek Alton Walcott KCSL OBE OM OCC was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works include the Homeric epic poem Omeros, which many critics view "as Walcott's major achievement."
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1930-01-23
Deathday2017-03-17 (87 years old)
Birth PlaceCastries, Saint Lucia, West Indies
SiblingsRoderick Walcott
CitizenshipsSaint Lucia
Awardshonorary doctorate of the University of Alcala, Officer of the Order of the British Empire, PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, Musgrave Medal, Order of Merit, MacArthur Fellows Program, Preis der Stadt Münster für Europäische Poesie, Guggenheim Fellowship, Cholmondeley Award, Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, T. S. Eliot Prize, Nobel Prize in Literature
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