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Derek Walcott
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Derek Walcott
Derek Alton Walcott
,
OBE
OCC
(born 23 January 1930) is a
Saint Lucian
-
Trinidadian
poet and playwright. He received the 1992
Nobel Prize in Literature
. He is currently Professor of Poetry at the
University of Essex
. His works include the
Homeric
epic poem
Omeros
(1990), which many critics view "as Walcott's major achievement." In addition to having won the Nobel, Walcott has won 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
and the 2011
T. S. Eliot Prize
for his book of poetry
White Egrets
.
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