Derek Walcott

Derek Walcott

Known for: Acting
Biography: 1930-01-23
Deathday: 2017-03-17 (87 years old)

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 For
Acting

Gender
Male

Birthday
1930-01-23

Deathday
2017-03-17 (87 years old)

Birth Place
Castries, Saint Lucia

Siblings
Roderick Walcott

Citizenships
Saint Lucia

Awards
star on Playwrights' Sidewalk, honorary doctorate of the University of Alcala, Heinemann Award, 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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