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Derek Walcott

Derek Walcott
Walcott at an honorary dinner in Amsterdam, May 20th 2008
Personal information
Birth dateJanuary 23, 1930(age 86)
Place of birthCastries, Saint Lucia
NationalitySaint Lucia
OccupationPoet, playwright, professor
Notable worksOmeros
Influenced byHart Crane, Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop
InfluencedGlyn Maxwell, Edward Baugh
ChildrenPeter Walcott, Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw, Anna Walcott-Hardy
Awards
Nobel Prize In Literature
1992

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The Hon. Derek Alton Walcott, OBE OCC (born January 23, 1930) is a Saint Lucian poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992 and the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2011 for White Egrets. His works include the Homeric epic Omeros. Robert Graves wrote that Walcott "handles English with a closer understanding of its inner magic than most, if not any, of his contemporaries”.


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