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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."
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 ...
Omeros is an epic poem by Saint Lucian writer Derek Walcott, first published in 1990.The work is divided into seven "books" containing a total of sixty-four chapters. Many critics view Omeros as Walcott's finest work.
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."
Pages in category "Plays by Derek Walcott" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Beef, No Chicken; C.
Dream on Monkey Mountain is a play by the Nobel Prize-winning St. Lucian poet and playwright Derek Walcott. It was first published in 1970 with a collection of short plays entitled Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays. It was produced and broadcast on NBC in 1970. [1]
"Love After Love" is a poem by Derek Walcott, included in his Collected Poems, 1948–1984 (1986). [1] NPR 's Weekend Edition featured a reading of the poem in March 2017. [ 2 ]
Harry Dernier: A Play for Radio Production is a play by Derek Walcott, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992. [1] It was first published in 1952. [2] A play about the last man on earth, and his decision about whether to draw out his life or end it, it has been described as more vernacular than his previous work, but "still literary in style and highly metaphysical in tone", and has ...