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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."
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Drums and Colours: An Epic Drama is a play by Derek Walcott.It was commissioned by the University of the West Indies [1] for the opening of the first (and only) opening session of the Federal Parliament of the West Indies Federation on 23 April 1958, when the play was first performed in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, [2] in an open-air production involving actors and personnel from other parts of ...
Stephen Breslow of University of Tampa had since the mid-1980s predicted that Walcott would become a Nobel laureate in literature and explained that the likely reasons why Swedish Academy chose Derek Walcott was because his work had "a strong regional voice that transcends its topical locality, through the depth and breadth of its poetic resonance and through its global human implication."
On Wednesday 10th September 2008 at BBC Bush House at 16.00hrs, Derek Walcott will be talking about his epic poem Omeros on the BBC's World Book Club. If you would like to put a question to Derek Walcott about Omeros , email worldbookclub@bbc.co.uk.
Trinidad Theatre Workshop {TTW) was founded in 1959, by 1992 Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott, with his twin brother Roderick Walcott and performers including Beryl McBurnie, Errol Jones and Stanley Marshall, and started at the Little Carib Theatre, before moving to other venues in Port of Spain.