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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."
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.
Poetic Republic Poetry Prize (Anonymous peer review poetry competition) Poetry London Prize (First Prize=£5000) Rhysling Award (For science-fiction poetry) Pushcart Prize ("Best of the Small Presses") Charles Causley Trust International Poetry Competition (First Prize=£2000) Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry; The Poetry.com Contest (First Prize ...
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."
Cholmondeley Award: Gillian Allnutt, Colette Bryce, Gwyneth Lewis, Deryn Rees-Jones; Costa Award (formerly "Whitbread Awards") for poetry: Christopher Reid A Scattering. Shortlist: English Association's Fellows' Poetry Prizes: Eric Gregory Award (for a collection of poems by a poet under the age of 30): Forward Poetry Prize: Best Collection:
Cholmondeley Award: Alistair Elliot, Michael Hamburger, Adrian Henri, Carole Satyamurti; Eric Gregory Award: Eleanor Margolies, Antony Rowland, Antony Dunn, Karen Goodwin, Clare Pollard; Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection: Michael Donaghy, Conjure (Picador) Forward Poetry Prize Best First Collection: Andrew Waterhouse, In (The Rialto)
National Book Award for poetry: Mary Oliver, New & Selected Poems; Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress: Mona Van Duyn; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: James Tate, Selected Poems; Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: John Ashbery; Whiting Awards: Roger Fanning, Jane Mead, Katha Pollitt; William Carlos Williams Award: Louise Glück, The ...
American Book Award: Angela Y. Davis, "Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday" American Book Award: Allison Hedge Coke, "Dog Road Woman", Coffee House Press "American Book Award 1998" AML Award for poetry to Alex Caldiero for Various Atmospheres: Poems and Drawings