Sir Derek Alton Walcott KCSL OBE OM OCC (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. [1] . His works include the Homeric epic poem Omeros (1990), which many critics view "as Walcott's major achievement." [2] .

Mar 13, 2025 · Derek Walcott (born January 23, 1930, Castries, Saint Lucia—died March 17, 2017, Cap Estate) was a West Indian poet and playwright noted for works that explore the Caribbean cultural experience. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992.

Mar 17, 2017 · The Nobel Prize in Literature 1992 was awarded to Derek Walcott "for a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment"

Born on the island of Saint Lucia, a former British colony in the West Indies, poet and playwright Derek Walcott was trained as a painter but turned to writing as a young man. He published his first poem in the local newspaper at the age of 14.

Derek Walcott was a West Indian poet and playwright, who won the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature for his depiction of Caribbean life and culture in the post-colonial era.

Mar 17, 2017 · Derek Walcott's work explored the beauty of his Caribbean homeland and its brutal colonial history. The prolific, Nobel Prize-winning poet and playwright died Friday at his home in St. Lucia....

May 20, 2008 · Sir Derek Alton Walcott KCSL OBE OCC (January 23, 1930 – March 17, 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright. Walcott was a Caribbean poet who expressed both his spiritual and colonial roots in his writing.

Jun 26, 2001 · Derek Walcott was born in 1930 on St. Lucia, an island then belonging to the British Empire, but which became independent in 1979. St. Lucia has a hybrid British/French culture, having alternated as a colony of either England or France across the centuries.

Derek Walcott gave the West Indies a voice. In his plays, poetry, and critical essays, Walcott has long sought to unearth independent identities for the people of the West Indies and to...

His epic poem, Omeros (1990), which loosely echoes and references characters from The Iliad, has been critically praised "as Walcott's major achievement." Walcott was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992, the first Caribbean writer to receive the honor.