biography
| name: |
Walcott, Derek (Alton)
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pronunciation:
[wolkot]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1930– )
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| biography:
| Poet and playwright, born in Castries, St Lucia, West Indies. He studied at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica, and has lived mostly in Trindad, where he founded the Trindad Theatre Workshop in 1959. He produced three early but assured volumes, In A Green Night (1962), The Castaway (1965), and The Gulf (1969). Later works include Collected Poems 1948–84 (1986), the epic Omeros (1990), Selected Poetry (1993), and The Bounty (1997). What the Twilight Says: Essays appeared in 1998. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992. |
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