Derek Walcott (23 January, 1930) is an award winning playwright and poet hailing from St. Lucia.
- Mr. Walcott’s ancestors were slaves in the West Indies, and slavery is a theme in his work.
- Playwright Roderick Walcott is the author’s twin brother.
- Both of Mr. Walcott’s parents were schoolteachers.
- When he was 18, Mr. Walcott’s first book of poems was published.
- In 1957, the author received a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation which allowed him to study in New York for two years.
- Upon his return, Mr. Walcott founded the Trinidad Theater Workshop.
- To this day, Mr. Walcott continues to publish poetry.
- The author wrote over 30 plays.
- Mr. Walcott is the first Caribbean writer to win the Nobel Prize.
- Mr. Walcott have earned many awards over his career including the Obie Award, a MacArthur Foundation “genius” award, a Royal Society of Literature Award, the Queen’s Medal for Poetry, the inaugural OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature and the 2011 T. S. Eliot Prize.
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