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Derek Walcott

1930 - 2017

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Sir Derek Alton Walcott OM (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 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Derek Walcott is the 833rd most popular writer (down from 681st in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Saint Lucia (down from 2nd in 2019) and the most popular Saint Lucian Writer.

Derek Walcott is most famous for his poem "Omeros" which was published in 1990.

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Among writers, Derek Walcott ranks 833 out of 7,302. Before him are Elsa Morante, Nikolai Ostrovsky, Kobayashi Issa, John Bunyan, Bacchylides, and Wole Soyinka. After him are John Dos Passos, L. Ron Hubbard, Miroslav Krleža, Antonio Machado, Stesichorus, and Jamal Khashoggi.

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Among people born in 1930, Derek Walcott ranks 67. Before him are Ali al-Sistani, Edsger W. Dijkstra, Carlos Kleiber, Reinhard Selten, Gena Rowlands, and Jesús Franco. After him are Johan Galtung, Robert Wagner, Ivan Silayev, William R. Pogue, Mary Quant, and Adunis. Among people deceased in 2017, Derek Walcott ranks 49. Before him are Powers Boothe, Chester Bennington, Lotfi A. Zadeh, Albert Speer, Kenneth Arrow, and George A. Romero. After him are Ryke Geerd Hamer, Emma Morano, Jonathan Demme, Malcolm Young, John Surtees, and Oliver Smithies.

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In Saint Lucia

Among people born in Saint Lucia, Derek Walcott ranks 3 out of 11. Before him are Joséphine de Beauharnais (1763), and W. Arthur Lewis (1915). After him are Philip J. Pierre (1954), Pearlette Louisy (1946), Joseph Marcell (1948), Kenny Anthony (1951), Neville Cenac (1939), Julien Alfred (2001), Stephenson King (1958), Chris Boucher (1993), and Levern Spencer (1984).

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Among writers born in Saint Lucia, Derek Walcott ranks 1. 

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