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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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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.
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Edward Alston Cecil Baugh CD (10 January 1936 – 9 December 2023) was a Jamaican poet and scholar, recognised as an authority on the work of Derek Walcott, [1] whose Selected Poems (2007) Baugh edited, having in 1978 authored the first book-length study of the Nobel-winning poet's work, Derek Walcott: Memory as Vision.