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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."
Cholmondeley Award: James Berry, Sujata Bhatt, Michael Hulse, Derek Mahon; Eric Gregory Award: Roddy Lumsden, Glyn Maxwell, Stephen Smith, Wayne Burrows, Jackie Kay; Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Judith Wright; Whitbread Award for poetry (United Kingdom): Michael Longley, Gorse Fires; National Poetry Competition : John Levett for A Shrunken Head
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]
Arthur Rense Prize – in 1998, the $20,000 award was established to honor "an exceptional poet" once every third year; Michael Braude Award for Light Verse – $5,000 biennial award is given "for light verse written in English regardless of the country of origin of the writer"
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."
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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.