81. Life Stories, Books, & Links About Derek Walcott writers. STORIES ABOUT derek walcott. 1/23/1930, derek walcott's CaribbeanNobel On this day in 1930 derek walcott was born on St. Lucia. http://www.todayinliterature.com/biography/derek.walcott.asp

Tuesday April 22 th = registration required free registration TABLE OF CONTENTS Derek Walcott - Life Stories, Books, and Links Biographical Information Stories about Derek Walcott Selected works by this author Selected books about / related to this author ... Recommended links BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION Derek Walcott (1930 - ) Category: Saint Lucian Literature Born: 1930 Castries, Saint Lucia Related authors: No related authors found list all writers LIFE STORIES ABOUT DEREK WALCOTT Derek Walcott's Caribbean Nobel On this day in 1930 Derek Walcott was born on St. Lucia. Walcott's two-dozen collections of poems and plays the most recent, Tiepolo's Hound , widens the range by including his paintings earned the 1992 Nobel. Friend and earlier Nobel-winner Joseph Brodsky said that the West Indes were "discovered by Columbus, colonized by the British, and immortalized by Walcott." top of page SELECTED WORKS BY THIS AUTHOR Collected Poems 1948-1984 anthology, poetry Omeros poetry Tiepolo's Hound poetry FIND BOOKS BY DEREK WALCOTT AT: Amazon.com

82. New York State Writers Institute - Derek Walcott derek walcott, poet and playwright, was the winner of the 1992 NobelPrize for Literature. He was born in the West Indian island of St. http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/walcott.html

Derek Walcott Channel 17 Sunday at 2:00 p.m. September 17, 2000 Photo Credit: Nancy Crampton Derek Walcott , poet and playwright, was the winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize for Literature. He was born in the West Indian island of St. Lucia, and known for his body of work that blends Caribbean, English, and African traditions. In awarding him the Nobel Prize in 1992, the academy praised him for "a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural achievement." In a Green Night Another Life The Star-Apple Kingdom Collected Poems, 1948-1984 The Arkansas Testament (1987), and Omeros (1990). Richard Wilbur, former poet laureate of the United States, has called Walcott, "one of the best poets writing in English." Dream on Monkey Mountain Ti-Jean and His Brothers The Last Carnival , and The Odyssey: A Stage Version (1993). He also wrote the story and the lyrics for Paul Simon's musical The Capeman which opened on Broadway January 28, 1998. Derek Walcott visited the NYS Writers Institute on October 8, 1998 In conjunction with the University Art Museum's exhibit Island Light: Recent Watercolors October 2 - November 15, 1998

83. DEREK WALCOTT derek walcott. Raised in poverty by his widowed mother, he went on to win the NobelPrize and claim a place for Caribbean literature at the centre of world http://www.nalis.gov.tt/Biography/bio_DerekWalcott-2-NobelLaureate.htm

DEREK WALCOTT THE LAUREATE OF ST LUCIA Courtesy the London Guardian Sunday Express September 17, 2000 Pages 50, 51, 53, 54 Raised in poverty by his widowed mother, he went on to win the Nobel Prize and claim a place for Caribbean literature at the centre of world culture. But he has faced controversy over his defence of colonial artistic traditions. NICHOLAS WROE , of the London Guardian, on an outspoken poet whose professional and personal life has been marked by turbulence. The following is an excerpt. When Derek Walc ott was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1992 the citation said he was honoured "for a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment." This vision and commitment were forged in the extraordinary cultural melting pot that is the Caribbean. There is English, Dutch, Creole and African all represented within two generations of his lineage. He was brought up in a British colony as an English-speaking Methodist, but St Lucia was mostly a Creole-speaking Catholic island. In social terms he was from an intellectual elite, while economically he was harshly poor.

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