Derek Walcott

Sir Derek Walcott KCSL OBE OM OCC
Walcott at an honorary dinner in Amsterdam, 20 May 2008
Born	Derek Alton Walcott (1930-01-23)23 January 1930 Castries, Colony of Saint Lucia, British Windward Islands, British Empire
Died	17 March 2017(2017-03-17) (aged 87) Cap Estate, Gros-Islet, Saint Lucia
Occupation	Poet, playwright, professor
Genre	Poetry and plays
Literary movement	Postcolonialism
Notable works	Dream on Monkey Mountain (1967), Omeros (1990), White Egrets (2007)
Notable awards	Nobel Prize in Literature 1992 T. S. Eliot Prize 2010
Children	3
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Sir Derek Alton Walcott KCSL OBE OM OCC (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature.^[1] His works include the Homeric epic poem Omeros (1990), which many critics view "as Walcott's major achievement."^[2] In addition to winning the Nobel Prize, Walcott received many literary awards over the course of his career, including an Obie Award in 1971 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,^[3] the 2010 T. S. Eliot Prize for his book of poetry White Egrets^[4] and the Griffin Trust For Excellence in Poetry Lifetime Recognition Award in 2015.