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  2. Derek Walcott - Wikipedia

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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."

  3. Dream on Monkey Mountain - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature - Wikipedia

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    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."

  5. Omeros - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Caribbean literature - Wikipedia

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    Derek Walcott's wrote "The Sea is History," and dramatized the impact of tropical storms and hurricanes on the locals. [18] Caribbean writing deploys agricultural symbolism to represent the complexities of colonial rule and the intrinsic values of the lands. Native fruits and vegetables appear in colonized and decolonizing discourse.

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    Pamela Anderson is reflecting on the "difficult" combination of her image as a Hollywood star and, simultaneously, a mother, earlier in her career. But when it comes to her sons Brandon, now 28 ...

  8. Comparative literature - Wikipedia

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    Current trends in Transnational studies also reflect the growing importance of post-colonial literary figures such as J. M. Coetzee, Maryse Condé, Earl Lovelace, V. S. Naipaul, Michael Ondaatje, Wole Soyinka, Derek Walcott, and Lasana M. Sekou. For recent post-colonial studies in North America see George Elliott Clarke.

  9. Divisive royal portraits and a $6.2-million banana: 2024’s ...

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    In January, a Japanese author admitted that her award-winning book, “The Tokyo Tower of Sympathy,” had been written with the help of ChatGPT. Shortly after receiving the Akutagawa Prize, Rie ...