Derek Walcott

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Saint Lucian-Trinidadian poet and playwright (1930-2017)

WritersLived 1930 to 2017 · aged 87

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Sir Derek Alton Walcott was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright.

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Walcott at VIII Festival Internacional, 1992

Wall poem "Omeros" in Leiden

Wall poem "Midsummer, Tobago" in The Hague

Walcott's grave on Morne Fortune, St. Lucia

Awards 16

2013Preis der Stadt Münster für Europäische Poesie

2005PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award

2004Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards

2002Prix Laure Bataillon

1994honorary doctorate of the University of Alcala

1992Nobel Prize in Literature

1983Heinemann Award

1969Cholmondeley Award

Guggenheim Fellowship

MacArthur Fellows Program

Officer of the Order of the British Empire

King’s / Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry

Musgrave Medal

Order of Merit

T. S. Eliot Prize

star on Playwrights' Sidewalk

In their orbit 5

SpouseFay Moston

SpouseMargaret Maillard

SpouseNorline Metivier

ChildElizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw

SiblingRoderick Walcott

Connected to Derek 6

Richard DawkinsAlso won Heinemann Award

Toni MorrisonAlso won PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award

Felipe VI of SpainAlso won honorary doctorate of the University of Alcala

Mo YanAlso won Prix Laure Bataillon

Seamus HeaneyAlso won T. S. Eliot Prize

Eugène IonescoAlso won star on Playwrights' Sidewalk

Derek Walcott

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Awards 16

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