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Derek Walcott Biography |
Derek Alton Walcott (born January 23, 1930) is a poet and writer who was in the vanguard of the post-colonial school of English language writing.
He was born in Castries, St. Lucia.
His work, which developed independently of the schools of magic realism emerging in both South America and Europe at around the time of his birth, is intensely related to the symbolism of myth and its relationship to culture. He is best known for his epic poem, Omeros a reworking of Homeric story and tradition into a journey around the Caribbean.
He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992.
Works
Poetry Collections
25 Poems
Epitaph for the Young: Xll Cantos
Poems
In a Green Night: Poems 1948–60
Selected Poems
The Castaway and Other Poems
The Gulf and Other Poems
Another Life
Sea Grapes
The Star-Apple Kingdom
Selected Poetry
The Fortunate Traveller
The Caribbean Poetry of Derek Walcott and the Art of Romare Bearden
Midsummer
Collected Poems, 1948-1984
The Arkansas Testament
Omeros
Drama
Dream on Monkey Mountain
Ti-Jean and His Brothers
Pantomime |
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