Derek Walcott

Also known as Derek Alton Walcott, Sir Derek Alton Walcott

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

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Derek Walcott was a Caribbean poet and playwright from Saint Lucia and Trinidad who lived from 1930 to 2017. He is remembered as one of the most significant literary figures of the Caribbean, known for works that explored themes of colonialism, identity, and the region's cultural heritage.

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Born: 23 Janurary 1930
Died: 2017
Works: 184

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Saint Lucia
Active from: 1930-01-23
Active to: 2017-03-17

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Listeners: 296
Total plays: 1,166

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Derek Alton Walcott, OBE OCC (born 23 January 1930) is a Saint Lucian 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 href="https://www.last.fm/music/Derek+Walcott">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
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Quotes

“Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe … I don’t think there is any other function for the poet or the scientist in the human tribe but the astonishment of the soul.”
“The violence of beast on beast is read As natural law, but upright man Seeks his divinity by inflicting pain.”
“I'm just a red nigger who love the sea,I had a sound colonial education,I have Dutch, nigger, and English in me,and either I'm nobody, or I'm a nation.”
“I try to forget what happiness was,and when that don't work, I study the stars.”
“You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart.”
“Peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.”

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name in native language: Derek Alton Walcott
Commons category: Derek Walcott
date of birth: 1930-01-23
date of death: 2017-03-17
described at URL: discoverarchives.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/derek-walcott-papers
inventory number: MS COLL 00136, MS COLL 00348, MS COLL 00504, MS COLL 00710, MS COLL 00772
P12674: Ōmiya-ku
P12749: Q148842

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Sir Derek Alton Walcott (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright.

He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works include the Homeric epic poem Omeros (1990), which many critics view "as Walcott's major achievement." In addition to winning the Nobel Prize, Walcott received many literary awards over the course of his career, including the Guiness Award for Poetry, Britian's W.H. Smith Literary Prize, 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, the 2010 T. S. Eliot Prize for his book of poetry White Egrets and the Griffin Trust For Excellence in Poetry Lifetime Recognition Award in 2015.