Derek Walcott Biography

Derek Walcott biography

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NAME: Derek Walcott
OCCUPATION: Playwright, Poet
BIRTH DATE: January 23, 1930 (Age: 83)
EDUCATION: St. Mary's College, University of the West Indies
PLACE OF BIRTH: Castries, Saint Lucia
Full Name: Derek Alton Walcott
ZODIAC SIGN: Aquarius

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Derek Walcott is a West Indian poet and playwright noted for works that explore the Caribbean cultural experience.

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Derek Walcott is best known for his poetry, beginning with In a Green Night: Poems 1948–1960 (1962), a book typical of his early poetry in its celebration of the Caribbean landscape's natural beauty. In his poem Omeros, he retells the dramas of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey in a 20th-century Caribbean setting. He has written more than 30 plays and in 1992 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.