Derek Walcott
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Derek Alton Walcott (born January 23, 1930) is a poet, writer and
artist 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 and beyond to the American West and London.
In 1997, he collaborated with Paul Simon on the Broadway musical The Capeman.
He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992.
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Works
Poetry Collections
* (1948) 25 Poems
* (1949) Epitaph for the Young: Xll Cantos
* (1951) Poems
* (1962) In a Green Night: Poems 1948–60
* (1964) Selected Poems
* (1965) The Castaway and Other Poems
* (1969) The Gulf and Other Poems
* (1973) Another Life
* (1976) Sea Grapes
* (1979) The Star-Apple Kingdom
* (1981) Selected Poetry
* (1981) The Fortunate Traveller
* (1983) The Caribbean Poetry of Derek Walcott and the Art of Romare Bearden
* (1984) Midsummer
* (1986) Collected Poems, 1948-1984
* (1987) The Arkansas Testament
* (1990) Omeros
* (1997) The Bounty
* (2000) Tiepolo's Hound
* (2004) The Prodigal
Drama
* (1970) Dream on Monkey Mountain
* (1970) Ti-Jean and His Brothers
* (1980) Pantomime
* (1997) The Capeman (lyrics)
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http://www.awardt.com/bio/walcott4/
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From the Nobel prize website:
http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/1992/walcott-bio.html
Derek Walcott was born in 1930 in the town of Castries in Saint Lucia,
one of the Windward Islands in the Lesser Antilles. The experience of
growing up on the isolated volcanic island, an ex-British colony, has
had a strong influence on Walcott's life and work. Both his
grandmothers were said to have been the descendants of slaves. His
father, a Bohemian watercolourist, died when Derek and his twin
brother, Roderick, were only a few years old. His mother ran the
town's Methodist school. After studying at St. Mary's College in his
native island and at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica,
Walcott moved in 1953 to Trinidad, where he has worked as theatre and
art critic. At the age of 18, he made his debut with 25 Poems, but his
breakthrough came with the collection of poems, In a Green Night
(1962). In 1959, he founded the Trinidad Theatre Workshop which
produced many of his early plays.
Walcott has been an assiduous traveller to other countries but has
always, not least in his efforts to create an indigenous drama, felt
himself deeply-rooted in Caribbean society with its cultural fusion of
African, Asiatic and European elements. For many years, he has divided
his time between Trinidad, where he has his home as a writer, and
Boston University, where he teaches literature and creative writing.
From Nobel Lectures, Literature 1991-1995, Editor Sture Allén, World
Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1997
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