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Derek Walcott

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Also known as Derek Alton Walcott, Sir Derek Alton Walcott

Saint Lucian–Trinidadian poet and playwright (1930–2017)

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Derek Walcott (1930–2017) was a male writer from Saint Lucia. He is recognized in the Nobel Literature collection and has received one Nobel Prize. His literary output includes 184 works, with notable titles such as *Prentice Hall Literature*, *Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold*, and *विश्व कविता संचयन*.

Walcott’s writings have been referenced by 720 other encyclopedia articles. His poetic themes include reflections on human nature and divinity, as seen in lines such as "The violence of beast on beast is read As natural law, but upright man Seeks his divinity by inflicting pain." Other quotes attributed to him include "I try to forget what happiness was, and when that don't work, I study the stars."

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Person · Open Library

Born
23 Janurary 1930
Died
2017
Works
184

Top works

  • विश्व कविता संचयन
  • Prentice Hall Literature
  • Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold
  • Prentice Hall Literature -- Gold
  • Prentice Hall Literature--World Masterpieces

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Saint Lucia
Active from
1930-01-23
Active to
2017-03-17
Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
296
Total plays
1,166

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Derek Alton Walcott, OBE OCC (born 23 January 1930) is a Saint Lucian poet and playwright. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is currently Professor of poetry at the University of Essex. His works include the Homeric epic poem, Omeros (1990), which many critics view "as Walcott's major achievement." In addition to having won the Nobel, Walcott has won many literary awards over the course of his career including an Obie Award in 1971 for his play Dream on Monkey Mountain <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Derek+Walcott">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)

    · 2016 · cited 23,614x

  2. Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    · 2014 · cited 9,234x

  3. <scp>micro</scp>‐<scp>checker</scp>: software for identifying and correcting genotyping errors in microsatellite data

    · 2004 · cited 8,895x

  4. Addressing Moderated Mediation Hypotheses: Theory, Methods, and Prescriptions

    · 2007 · cited 8,251x

  5. Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls

    · 2007 · cited 7,929x

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Quotes

  • “Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe … I don’t think there is any other function for the poet or the scientist in the human tribe but the astonishment of the soul.”
  • “The violence of beast on beast is read As natural law, but upright man Seeks his divinity by inflicting pain.”
  • “I'm just a red nigger who love the sea,I had a sound colonial education,I have Dutch, nigger, and English in me,and either I'm nobody, or I'm a nation.”
  • “I try to forget what happiness was,and when that don't work, I study the stars.”
  • “You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart.”
  • “Peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.”

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Literature1992

    “for a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment”

NobelPrize.org →

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Encyclopedic overview

Sir Derek Alton Walcott (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright.

He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works include the Homeric epic poem Omeros (1990), which many critics view "as Walcott's major achievement." In addition to winning the Nobel Prize, Walcott received many literary awards over the course of his career, including the Guiness Award for Poetry, Britian's W.H. Smith Literary Prize, 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, the 2010 T. S. Eliot Prize for his book of poetry White Egrets and the Griffin Trust For Excellence in Poetry Lifetime Recognition Award in 2015.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Derek Walcott” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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