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Derek Walcott
Sir Derek Alton Walcott was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright.
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culture · Saint Lucian poet and playwright (1930–2017) · poet · playwright · writer · prose writer · director · librettist · also Derek Walcott, Derek Alton Walcott, Sir Derek Alton Walcott, Walcott
Born 23 January 1930 · Died 17 March 2017 · Q132701
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2026· 4 entries
CatalunyaPress: Omeros, de Derek Walcott
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The New York Times: Derek Walcott
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Yahoo: Derek Walcott's 'Love After Love' poem offers new perspective on aging
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2024· 1 entry
The Boston Globe: The Derek Walcott Prize, a poet laureate for Salem, and the Cape Cod Book Festival
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2019· 1 entry
Arrowsmith Press, in partnership with The Derek Walcott Festival in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, and the Boston Playwrights' Theatre, began awarding the annual Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry to a full-length book of poems by
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2017· 4 entries
The Guardian: Derek Walcott museum closes amid row over Caribbean tourist developments
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The Guardian: Derek Walcott obituary
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The Guardian: Nobel laureate, poet and playwright Derek Walcott dead, aged 87
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Died 2017-03-17.
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2014· 1 entry
The Guardian: The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013 – review
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2013· 2 entries
Awarded Preis der Stadt Münster für Europäische Poesie (2013).
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Dutch filmmaker Ida Does released Poetry is an Island, a feature documentary film about Walcott's life and the ever-present influence of his birthplace of St Lucia
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2012· 1 entry
The Guardian: Derek Walcott: 'The Oxford poetry job would have been too much work'
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2011· 2 entries
The Guardian: TS Eliot prize goes to Derek Walcott for 'moving and technically flawless' work
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The Guardian: White Egrets by Derek Walcott
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2010· 3 entries
The Guardian: White Egrets by Derek Walcott | Book review
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The Guardian: 42, for Lorna Goodison by Derek Walcott
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Became Professor of Poetry at the University of Essex
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2009· 2 entries
Walcott was a leading candidate for the position of Oxford Professor of Poetry
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Walcott began a three-year scholar-in-residence position at the University of Alberta
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2008· 1 entry
Walcott gave the first Cola Debrot Lectures
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2005· 1 entry
Awarded PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award (2005).
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2004· 2 entries
Awarded Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards (2004).
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Won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Lifetime Achievement
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2003· 1 entry
The Washington Post: Derek Walcott: A Poet's Ode to St. Lucia
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2002· 1 entry
Awarded Prix Laure Bataillon (2002).
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1997· 1 entry
It was added by UNESCO to the Memory of the World international register, recognising it as globally important documentary heritage
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1996· 1 entry
A student at Boston University sued Walcott for sexual harassment and "offensive sexual physical contact"
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1994· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of Alcala (1994).
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1993· 1 entry
A public square and park located in central Castries, Saint Lucia, was named Derek Walcott Square
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1992· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — for a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (1992).
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The second Caribbean writer to receive the honour after Saint-John Perse, who was born in Guadeloupe, and received the award in 1960
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1983· 1 entry
Awarded Heinemann Award (1983).
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1982· 1 entry
A Harvard sophomore accused Walcott of sexual harassment in September 1981
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1976· 1 entry
Walcott married for a third time, to actress Norline Metivier; they divorced in 1993
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1971· 2 entries
For his play Dream on Monkey Mountain, 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, the 2010 T
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It was produced by the Negro Ensemble Company off-Broadway in New York City; it won an Obie Award that year for "Best Foreign Play"
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1969· 1 entry
Awarded Cholmondeley Award (1969).
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1954· 1 entry
Walcott married Fay Moston, a secretary, and they had a son, the St
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1953· 1 entry
Where he became a critic, teacher and journalist
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1930· 1 entry
Born 1930-01-23.
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