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    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...
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  • Omeros is an epic poem by Saint Lucian writer Derek Walcott, first published in 1990. The work is divided into seven "books" containing a total of sixty-four...
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    Derek Walcott Square (formerly Columbus Square) is a public square and park located in central Castries, Saint Lucia. The square is bounded by Bourbon...
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    1992 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Saint Lucian poet Derek Walcott (1930–2017) "for a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a...
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  • when he would finish. He collaborated with Nobel Prize-winning poet Derek Walcott on new narration for the film. American History X was due to premiere...
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    winner of the 1979 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, as well as of Derek Walcott, winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize for Literature. In 1650, the fort auprès...
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  • language. Two West Indian writers have won the Nobel Prize for literature: Derek Walcott (1992), born in St. Lucia, resident mostly in Trinidad during the 1960s...
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    Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, Toni Morrison, August Wilson, Wole Soyinka, Derek Walcott, Octavia E. Butler, and Edwidge Danticat. Writers selected for this...
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  • Company, 1935. Walcott, Derek (1997) [1965]. "The Figure of Crusoe". In Hamner, Robert D. (ed.). Critical perspectives on Derek Walcott (2nd ed.). Boulder...
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    Egypt, Octavio Paz from Mexico, Nadine Gordimer from South Africa, Derek Walcott from St. Lucia, Toni Morrison, the first African-American on the list...
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    "from The Prodigal by Derek Walcott | [Desire and disease commingling] by Derek Walcott | [O Serbian sibyl, prophetess] by Derek Walcott". Poetry Magazine...
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  • Derek Walcott, whose Selected Poems (2007) Baugh edited, having in 1978 authored the first book-length study of the Nobel-winning poet's work, Derek Walcott:...
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  • co-edited several books. Walcott-Hackshaw is the daughter of Nobel Prize laureate Derek Walcott. Born in Trinidad in 1964, Walcott-Hackshaw studied in the...
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  • The Capeman (category Plays by Derek Walcott)
    musical play with music by Paul Simon and book and lyrics by Simon and Derek Walcott based on the life of convicted murderer Salvador Agrón. The play opened...
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  • Dream on Monkey Mountain (category Plays by Derek Walcott)
    is a play by the Nobel Prize-winning St. Lucian poet and playwright Derek Walcott. It was first published in 1970 with a collection of short plays entitled...
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  • and Paterson by William Carlos Williams are examples of modern epics. Derek Walcott won a Nobel prize in 1992 to a great extent on the basis of his epic...
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  • Derek Walcott, included in his Collected Poems, 1948–1984 (1986). NPR's Weekend Edition featured a reading of the poem in March 2017. Plays by Derek Walcott...
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  • Charlatan, a 1934 book by Sydney Horler The Charlatan, a 2002 book by Derek Walcott Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him...
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    2020). "Derek Walcott (1930–2017)". Retrieved 7 November 2020. Heavily influenced by the modernist poets T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, Walcott became internationally...
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  • prose writing by and about the poets. Louise Bennett Martin Carter Derek Walcott Edward Kamau Brathwaite Dennis Scott Mervyn Morris James Berry E. A...
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  • Sisson Stevie Smith Jon Stallworthy R. S. Thomas Charles Tomlinson Derek Walcott Richard Wilbur "D.J. Enright is soon to bring out his ‘Oxford Book of...
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  • Sense From Nonsense"). He died in 1960 of an alcohol-related illness. Derek Walcott in his poem "The Spoiler's Return" borrows the calypsonian's persona...
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  • and Derek Walcott's Omeros (1990) a more predictable success. The form has been particularly popular in the Caribbean, with work since 1980 by Walcott, Edward...
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  • the time. All songs written by Paul Simon, with lyrics co-written by Derek Walcott. "Adios Hermanos" – 4:42 "Born in Puerto Rico" – 4:54 "Satin Summer...
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    Aleksandrovich Brodsky". Brodsky's close friend, the Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, memorialized him in his collection The Prodigal, in 2004. I was born...
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    Panama include Enrique Geenzier. Poets Laureate of Saint Lucia include Derek Walcott. Paul-Keens Douglas became the inaugural Poet Laureate of Trinidad and...
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  • Beatles Derek Turner (journalist) (born 1964), Irish journalist Derek Walcott (1930–2017), West Indian poet, playwright, writer and visual artist Derek Wood...
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  • of Nobel laureate Derek Walcott. Roderick Aldon Walcott was born in Castries, St Lucia, the son of Alix (Maarlin) and Warwick Walcott. He was educated...
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  • Pensiero caraibico: Kamau Brathwaite, Alejo Carpentier, Édouard Glissant, Derek Walcott, Rome: Ensemble Edizioni, 2016. Emily Allen Williams, The Critical Response...
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    recruiting star faculty. Two of his faculty "stars", Elie Wiesel and Derek Walcott, won Nobel Prizes shortly after Silber recruited them. Two others, Saul...
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