Derek Walcott

Derek Walcott

Writing 1930-01-23 Castries, Saint Lucia, West Indies

Sir Derek Alton Walcott KCSL OBE OM OCC was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works include the Homeric epic poem Omeros, which many critics view "as Walcott's major achievement."

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