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The Cholmondeley Awards (/ ˈ tʃ ʌ m l i / CHUM-lee) are annual awards for poetry given by the Society of Authors in the United Kingdom. Awards honour distinguished poets, from a fund endowed by the Dowager Marchioness of Cholmondeley in 1966. Since 1991 the award has been made to four poets each year, to the total value of £8000.
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."
Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry; The Poetry.com Contest (First Prize=$1000) Asia ... Cholmondeley Award; Costa Poetry Award, formerly the Whitbread Poetry award;
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."
Derek Walcott, Another Life ... See 1973 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and ... Cholmondeley Award: Patric Dickinson, Philip Larkin; ...
Cholmondeley Award : John Heath-Stubbs, Sean O'Brien, John Whitworth; Eric Gregory Award : Michael Symmons Roberts, Gwyneth Lewis, Adrian Blackledge, Simon Armitage, Robert Crawford; Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry : Derek Walcott; National Poetry Competition : Martin Reed for The Widow's Dream
Derek Roberts, mayor of Newland, North Carolina, claims his daughter was denied $750 FEMA relief payment and only got $300. Fox News “My daughter, whose house got completely wiped out, she has ...
Cholmondeley Award: Derek Walcott, Tony Harrison Eric Gregory Award : Gavin Bantock , Jeremy Hooker , Jenny King, Neil Powell , Landeg E. White Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry : Stevie Smith