Writing · Director · Writer · Theatre Play
Born Jan 23, 1930 · Castries, Saint Lucia, West Indies
Active 1967–2017 · Awards: Nobel Prize in Literature, Guggenheim Fellowship, MacArthur Fellows Program, Officer of the Order of the British Empire, Cholmondeley Award, King’s / Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, Musgrave Medal
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."