Derek Walcott is a Nobel Prize-winning poet who was born in Saint Lucia, a former British colony in the West Indies. Much of Walcott’s work deals with Island influences and his English and West Indian ancestry. In 1959, Walcott founded the non-profit Trinidad Theatre Workshop, which has since produced many of Walcott’s plays, as well a wider range of plays by other playwrights. He has published twenty-one collections of poetry and over twenty plays. His most recent publication was Selected Poems (2007), which draws from his publications over the last fifty years. His awards include a MacArthur “genius” grant, an Obie Award, a Royal Society of Literature Award, and the Queen’s Medal for Poetry. He is currently at work on his forthcoming poetry collection, White Egrets.
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