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href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott" title="Derek Walcott – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="Derek Walcott" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Aragonés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Uolkott" title="Derek Uolkott – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Derek Uolkott" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%B1%DA%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%AA" title="درک والکوت – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="درک والکوت" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%A1%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%95_%E0%A6%93%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%9F%E2%80%8C" title="ডেরেক ওয়ালকট‌ – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="ডেরেক ওয়ালকট‌" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%8D%D1%80%D1%8D%D0%BA_%D0%A3%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%82" title="Дэрэк Уолкат – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Дэрэк Уолкат" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%8D%D1%80%D1%8D%D0%BA_%D0%8E%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%82" title="Дэрэк Ўолкат – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Дэрэк Ўолкат" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BA_%D0%A3%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BA%D1%8A%D1%82" title="Дерек Уолкът – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Дерек Уолкът" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott" title="Derek Walcott – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Derek Walcott" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott" title="Derek Walcott – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Derek Walcott" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott" title="Derek Walcott – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Derek Walcott" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott" title="Derek Walcott – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Derek Walcott" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-dag mw-list-item"><a href="https://dag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott" title="Derek Walcott – Dagbani" lang="dag" hreflang="dag" data-title="Derek Walcott" data-language-autonym="Dagbanli" data-language-local-name="Dagbani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dagbanli</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott" title="Derek Walcott – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Derek Walcott" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott" title="Derek Walcott – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Derek Walcott" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott" title="Derek Walcott – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Derek Walcott" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9D%CF%84%CE%AD%CF%81%CE%B5%CE%BA_%CE%93%CE%BF%CF%85%CF%8C%CE%BB%CE%BA%CE%BF%CF%84" title="Ντέρεκ Γουόλκοτ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Ντέρεκ Γουόλκοτ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott" title="Derek Walcott – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Derek Walcott" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott" title="Derek Walcott – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Derek Walcott" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott" title="Derek Walcott – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Derek Walcott" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%B1%DA%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%AA" title="درک والکوت – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="درک والکوت" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott" title="Derek Walcott – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Derek Walcott" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott" title="Derek Walcott – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Derek Walcott" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott" title="Derek Walcott – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Derek Walcott" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gd mw-list-item"><a href="https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott" title="Derek Walcott – Scottish Gaelic" lang="gd" hreflang="gd" data-title="Derek Walcott" data-language-autonym="Gàidhlig" data-language-local-name="Scottish Gaelic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gàidhlig</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott" title="Derek Walcott – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Derek Walcott" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hak mw-list-item"><a href="https://hak.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott" title="Derek Walcott – Hakka Chinese" lang="hak" hreflang="hak" data-title="Derek Walcott" data-language-autonym="客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî" data-language-local-name="Hakka Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8D%B0%EB%A6%AD_%EC%9B%94%EC%BB%B7" title="데릭 월컷 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="데릭 월컷" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B4%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%A5%D5%AF_%D5%88%D6%82%D5%B8%D5%AC%D5%AF%D5%B8%D5%BF" title="Դերեկ Ուոլկոտ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Դերեկ Ուոլկոտ" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A1%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%95_%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9F%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9F" title="डेरेक वालकाट्ट – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="डेरेक वालकाट्ट" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott" title="Derek Walcott – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Derek Walcott" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott" title="Derek Walcott – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Derek Walcott" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ilo mw-list-item"><a href="https://ilo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott" title="Derek Walcott – Iloko" lang="ilo" hreflang="ilo" data-title="Derek Walcott" data-language-autonym="Ilokano" data-language-local-name="Iloko" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ilokano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Alton_Walcott" title="Derek Alton Walcott – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Derek Alton Walcott" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott" title="Derek Walcott – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Derek Walcott" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott" title="Derek Walcott – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Derek Walcott" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%93%D7%A8%D7%A7_%D7%95%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%98" title="דרק וולקוט – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="דרק וולקוט" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv mw-list-item"><a href="https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott" title="Derek Walcott – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" data-title="Derek Walcott" data-language-autonym="Jawa" data-language-local-name="Javanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Jawa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%93%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%94%E1%83%99_%E1%83%A3%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9A%E1%83%99%E1%83%9D%E1%83%A2%E1%83%98" title="დერეკ უოლკოტი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="დერეკ უოლკოტი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BA_%D0%A3%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%82" title="Дерек Уолкотт – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Дерек Уолкотт" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott" title="Derek Walcott – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Derek Walcott" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-avk mw-list-item"><a href="https://avk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott" title="Derek Walcott – Kotava" lang="avk" hreflang="avk" data-title="Derek Walcott" data-language-autonym="Kotava" data-language-local-name="Kotava" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kotava</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ht mw-list-item"><a href="https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott" title="Derek Walcott – Haitian Creole" lang="ht" hreflang="ht" data-title="Derek Walcott" data-language-autonym="Kreyòl ayisyen" data-language-local-name="Haitian Creole" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kreyòl ayisyen</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott" title="Derek Walcott – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Derek Walcott" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodericus_Walcott" title="Theodericus Walcott – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Theodericus Walcott" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dereks_Volkots" title="Dereks Volkots – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Dereks Volkots" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott" title="Derek Walcott – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Derek Walcott" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott" title="Derek Walcott – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Derek Walcott" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott" title="Derek Walcott – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Derek Walcott" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BA_%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%82" title="Дерек Волкот – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Дерек Волкот" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A1%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%95_%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%89%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%89%E0%A4%9F" title="डेरेक वॉलकॉट – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="डेरेक वॉलकॉट" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%88%D8%AA" title="دريك والكوت – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="دريك والكوت" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mzn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%B1%DA%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%AA" title="درک والکوت – Mazanderani" lang="mzn" hreflang="mzn" data-title="درک والکوت" data-language-autonym="مازِرونی" data-language-local-name="Mazanderani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مازِرونی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott" title="Derek Walcott – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Derek Walcott" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mwl mw-list-item"><a href="https://mwl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott" title="Derek Walcott – Mirandese" lang="mwl" hreflang="mwl" data-title="Derek Walcott" data-language-autonym="Mirandés" data-language-local-name="Mirandese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Mirandés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott" title="Derek Walcott – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Derek Walcott" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%83%AC%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A9%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%83%E3%83%88" title="デレック・ウォルコット – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="デレック・ウォルコット" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott" title="Derek Walcott – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Derek Walcott" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott" title="Derek Walcott – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Derek Walcott" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott" title="Derek Walcott – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Derek Walcott" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott" title="Derek Walcott – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Derek Walcott" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%A1%E0%A9%87%E0%A8%B0%E0%A9%87%E0%A8%95_%E0%A8%B5%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%B2%E0%A8%95%E0%A9%8B%E0%A8%9F" title="ਡੇਰੇਕ ਵਾਲਕੋਟ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਡੇਰੇਕ ਵਾਲਕੋਟ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%88%DB%8C%D8%B1%DA%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%B9" title="ڈیرک والکوٹ – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="ڈیرک والکوٹ" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ps mw-list-item"><a href="https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%90%D8%B1%DA%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%BC" title="دېرک والکاټ – Pashto" lang="ps" hreflang="ps" data-title="دېرک والکاټ" data-language-autonym="پښتو" data-language-local-name="Pashto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پښتو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott" title="Derek Walcott – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Derek Walcott" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott" title="Derek Walcott – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Derek Walcott" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott" title="Derek Walcott – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Derek Walcott" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%82,_%D0%94%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BA" title="Уолкотт, Дерек – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Уолкотт, Дерек" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott" title="Derek Walcott – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="Derek Walcott" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Scots</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott" title="Derek Walcott – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Derek Walcott" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott" title="Derek Walcott – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Derek Walcott" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8E%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%DA%B5%DA%A9%DB%86%D8%AA" title="دێریک واڵکۆت – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="دێریک واڵکۆت" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>کوردی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BA_%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%82" title="Дерек Волкот – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Дерек Волкот" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott" title="Derek Walcott – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Derek Walcott" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott" title="Derek Walcott – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Derek Walcott" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%9F%E0%AF%86%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%86%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%9F%E0%AF%8D" title="டெரெக் வால்காட் – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="டெரெக் வால்காட்" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>தமிழ்</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tt mw-list-item"><a href="https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BA_%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%82" title="Дерек Волкотт – Tatar" lang="tt" hreflang="tt" data-title="Дерек Волкотт" data-language-autonym="Татарча / tatarça" data-language-local-name="Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Татарча / tatarça</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott" title="Derek Walcott – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Derek Walcott" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BA_%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%82" title="Дерек Волкотт – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Дерек Волкотт" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Українська</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ur mw-list-item"><a href="https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%88%DB%8C%D8%B1%DA%A9_%D9%88%D9%84%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%B9" title="ڈیرک ولکوٹ – Urdu" lang="ur" hreflang="ur" data-title="ڈیرک ولکوٹ" data-language-autonym="اردو" data-language-local-name="Urdu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>اردو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott" title="Derek Walcott – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="Derek Walcott" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" data-language-local-name="Vietnamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tiếng Việt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-wuu mw-list-item"><a href="https://wuu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BE%B7%E9%87%8C%E5%85%8B%C2%B7%E6%B2%83%E5%B0%94%E7%A7%91%E7%89%B9" title="德里克·沃尔科特 – Wu" lang="wuu" hreflang="wuu" data-title="德里克·沃尔科特" data-language-autonym="吴语" data-language-local-name="Wu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>吴语</span></a></li><li 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searchaux" style="display:none">Saint Lucian poet and playwright (1930–2017)</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="honorific-prefix" style="display:inline;font-size: 77%; font-weight: normal;">Sir</div><br /><div style="display:inline;" class="fn">Derek Walcott</div><br /><div class="honorific-suffix" style="display:inline;font-size: 77%; font-weight: normal;"><a href="/wiki/Order_of_Saint_Lucia" title="Order of Saint Lucia">KCSL</a> <a href="/wiki/Officer_of_the_Most_Excellent_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire">OBE</a> <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Merit_(Jamaica)" title="Order of Merit (Jamaica)">OM</a> <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Caribbean_Community" title="Order of the Caribbean Community">OCC</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Derek_Walcott.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Walcott at an honorary dinner in Amsterdam, 20 May 2008"><img alt="Walcott at an honorary dinner in Amsterdam, 20 May 2008" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Derek_Walcott.jpg/220px-Derek_Walcott.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="330" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Derek_Walcott.jpg/330px-Derek_Walcott.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Derek_Walcott.jpg/440px-Derek_Walcott.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2912" data-file-height="4368" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:1.4em;">Walcott at an honorary dinner in <a href="/wiki/Amsterdam" title="Amsterdam">Amsterdam</a>, 20 May 2008</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Born</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">Derek Alton Walcott<br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1930-01-23</span>)</span>23 January 1930<br /><a href="/wiki/Castries" title="Castries">Castries</a>, <a href="/wiki/Colony_of_Saint_Lucia" class="mw-redirect" title="Colony of Saint Lucia">Colony of Saint Lucia</a>, <a href="/wiki/British_Windward_Islands" title="British Windward Islands">British Windward Islands</a>, British Empire</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Died</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">17 March 2017<span style="display:none">(2017-03-17)</span> (aged 87)<br />Cap Estate, <a href="/wiki/Gros-Islet" class="mw-redirect" title="Gros-Islet">Gros-Islet</a>, Saint Lucia</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role" style="line-height:1.4em;">Poet, playwright, professor</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.4em;">Poetry and plays</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Literary movement</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Postcolonial_literature" title="Postcolonial literature">Postcolonialism</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Notable works</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><i><a href="/wiki/Dream_on_Monkey_Mountain" title="Dream on Monkey Mountain">Dream on Monkey Mountain</a></i> (1967), <i><a href="/wiki/Omeros" title="Omeros">Omeros</a></i> (1990), <i>White Egrets</i> (2007)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Notable awards</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="Nobel Prize in Literature">Nobel Prize in Literature</a> <br /> 1992 <br /> <a href="/wiki/T._S._Eliot_Prize" title="T. S. Eliot Prize">T. S. Eliot Prize</a> <br /> 2010 <br /></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Children</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">3</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Signature</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><span class="skin-invert-image" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Derek_Walcott_signature.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Derek_Walcott_signature.svg/150px-Derek_Walcott_signature.svg.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="49" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Derek_Walcott_signature.svg/225px-Derek_Walcott_signature.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Derek_Walcott_signature.svg/300px-Derek_Walcott_signature.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="471" data-file-height="154" /></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Sir Derek Alton Walcott</b> <span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Order_of_Saint_Lucia" title="Order of Saint Lucia">KCSL</a></span> <span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="/wiki/Officer_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Officer of the Order of the British Empire">OBE</a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Merit_(Jamaica)" title="Order of Merit (Jamaica)">OM</a> <span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Caribbean_Community" title="Order of the Caribbean Community">OCC</a></span> (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a <a href="/wiki/Saint_Lucia" title="Saint Lucia">Saint Lucian</a> poet and playwright. </p><p>He received the <a href="/wiki/1992_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1992 Nobel Prize in Literature">1992 Nobel Prize in Literature</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His works include the <a href="/wiki/Homeric" class="mw-redirect" title="Homeric">Homeric</a> <a href="/wiki/Epic_poetry" title="Epic poetry">epic poem</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Omeros" title="Omeros">Omeros</a></i> (1990), which many critics view "as Walcott's major achievement."<sup id="cite_ref-pf_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pf-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In addition to winning the Nobel Prize, Walcott received many literary awards over the course of his career, including an <a href="/wiki/Obie_Award" title="Obie Award">Obie Award</a> in 1971 for his play <i><a href="/wiki/Dream_on_Monkey_Mountain" title="Dream on Monkey Mountain">Dream on Monkey Mountain</a></i>, a <a href="/wiki/MacArthur_Foundation" title="MacArthur Foundation">MacArthur Foundation</a> "genius" award, a <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society_of_Literature" title="Royal Society of Literature">Royal Society of Literature</a> Award, the <a href="/wiki/Queen%27s_Gold_Medal_for_Poetry" class="mw-redirect" title="Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry">Queen's Medal for Poetry</a>, the inaugural <a href="/wiki/OCM_Bocas_Prize_for_Caribbean_Literature" title="OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature">OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-bocas_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bocas-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the 2010 <a href="/wiki/T._S._Eliot_Prize" title="T. S. Eliot Prize">T. S. Eliot Prize</a> for his book of poetry <i>White Egrets</i><sup id="cite_ref-Eliot_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Eliot-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/Griffin_Poetry_Prize" title="Griffin Poetry Prize">Griffin Trust For Excellence in Poetry</a> Lifetime Recognition Award in 2015. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_childhood">Early life and childhood</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Derek_Walcott&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and childhood"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Walcott was born and raised in <a href="/wiki/Castries" title="Castries">Castries</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saint_Lucia" title="Saint Lucia">Saint Lucia</a>, in the <a href="/wiki/West_Indies" title="West Indies">West Indies</a>, the son of Alix (Maarlin) and Warwick Walcott.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He had a twin brother, the playwright <a href="/wiki/Roderick_Walcott" title="Roderick Walcott">Roderick Walcott</a>, and a sister, Pamela Walcott. His family is of English, Dutch and African descent, reflecting the complex colonial history of the island that he explores in his poetry. His mother, a teacher, loved the arts and often recited poetry around the house.<sup id="cite_ref-Paris_Review_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Paris_Review-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His father was a <a href="/wiki/Civil_servant" class="mw-redirect" title="Civil servant">civil servant</a> and a talented painter. He died when Walcott and his brother were one year old, and were left to be raised by their mother. Walcott was brought up in Methodist schools. His mother, who was a teacher at a Methodist elementary school, provided her children with an environment where their talents could be nurtured.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Walcott's family was part of a minority <a href="/wiki/Methodist" class="mw-redirect" title="Methodist">Methodist</a> community, who felt overshadowed by the dominant Catholic culture of the island established during French colonial rule.<sup id="cite_ref-Grimes_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grimes-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As a young man Walcott trained as a painter, mentored by <a href="/wiki/Harold_Simmons_(folklorist)" title="Harold Simmons (folklorist)">Harold Simmons</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> whose life as a professional artist provided an inspiring example for him. Walcott greatly admired <a href="/wiki/C%C3%A9zanne" class="mw-redirect" title="Cézanne">Cézanne</a> and <a href="/wiki/Giorgione" title="Giorgione">Giorgione</a> and sought to learn from them.<sup id="cite_ref-Paris_Review_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Paris_Review-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Walcott's painting was later exhibited at the <a href="/wiki/Anita_Shapolsky_Gallery" title="Anita Shapolsky Gallery">Anita Shapolsky Gallery</a> in New York City, along with the art of other writers, in a 2007 exhibition named <i>The Writer's Brush: Paintings and Drawing by Writers</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He studied as a writer, becoming "an elated, exuberant poet madly in love with English" and strongly influenced by modernist poets such as <a href="/wiki/T._S._Eliot" title="T. S. Eliot">T. S. Eliot</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ezra_Pound" title="Ezra Pound">Ezra Pound</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-pf_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pf-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Walcott had an early sense of a vocation as a writer. In the poem "Midsummer" (1984), he wrote: </p> <blockquote><div class="poem"> <p>Forty years gone, in my island childhood, I felt that <br /> the gift of poetry had made me one of the chosen, <br /> that all experience was kindling to the fire of the Muse.<sup id="cite_ref-Paris_Review_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Paris_Review-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </div></blockquote> <p>At 14, Walcott published his first poem, a <a href="/wiki/John_Milton" title="John Milton">Miltonic</a>, religious poem, in the newspaper <i>The Voice of St Lucia</i>. An English Catholic priest condemned the Methodist-inspired poem as blasphemous in a response printed in the newspaper.<sup id="cite_ref-Paris_Review_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Paris_Review-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By 19, Walcott had self-published his first two collections with the aid of his mother, who paid for the printing: <i>25 Poems</i> (1948) and <i>Epitaph for the Young: XII Cantos</i> (1949). He sold copies to his friends and covered the costs.<sup id="cite_ref-Academy_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Academy-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He later commented: </p> <blockquote><p>I went to my mother and said, "I'd like to publish a book of poems, and I think it's going to cost me two hundred dollars." She was just a seamstress and a schoolteacher, and I remember her being very upset because she wanted to do it. Somehow she got it—a lot of money for a woman to have found on her salary. She gave it to me, and I sent off to <a href="/wiki/Trinidad" title="Trinidad">Trinidad</a> and had the book printed. When the books came back I would sell them to friends. I made the money back.<sup id="cite_ref-Paris_Review_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Paris_Review-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>The influential Bajan poet <a href="/wiki/Frank_Collymore" title="Frank Collymore">Frank Collymore</a> critically supported Walcott's early work.<sup id="cite_ref-Paris_Review_6-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Paris_Review-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After attending high school at <a href="/wiki/Saint_Mary%27s_College_(Saint_Lucia)" title="Saint Mary's College (Saint Lucia)">Saint Mary's College</a>, he received a scholarship to study at the <a href="/wiki/University_College_of_the_West_Indies" class="mw-redirect" title="University College of the West Indies">University College of the West Indies</a> in <a href="/wiki/Kingston,_Jamaica" title="Kingston, Jamaica">Kingston, Jamaica</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-British_Council_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-British_Council-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Derek_Walcott&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Derek_Walcott,_VIII_Festival_Internacional.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Derek_Walcott%2C_VIII_Festival_Internacional.jpg/220px-Derek_Walcott%2C_VIII_Festival_Internacional.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="321" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Derek_Walcott%2C_VIII_Festival_Internacional.jpg/330px-Derek_Walcott%2C_VIII_Festival_Internacional.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Derek_Walcott%2C_VIII_Festival_Internacional.jpg/440px-Derek_Walcott%2C_VIII_Festival_Internacional.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="1460" /></a><figcaption>Walcott at VIII Festival Internacional, 1992</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><span><audio id="mwe_player_0" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="220" style="width:220px;" data-durationhint="198" data-mwtitle="Derek-Walcott-names.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons" resource="/wiki/File:Derek-Walcott-names.ogg"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/Derek-Walcott-names.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/41/Derek-Walcott-names.ogg/Derek-Walcott-names.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><track src="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=timedtext&title=File%3ADerek-Walcott-names.ogg&lang=en&trackformat=vtt&origin=%2A" kind="subtitles" type="text/vtt" srclang="en" label="English ‪(en)‬" data-dir="ltr" /></audio></span><figcaption>Derek Walcott reciting his poem "names"</figcaption></figure> <p>After graduation, Walcott moved to Trinidad in 1953, where he became a critic, teacher and journalist.<sup id="cite_ref-British_Council_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-British_Council-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He founded the <a href="/wiki/Trinidad_Theatre_Workshop" title="Trinidad Theatre Workshop">Trinidad Theatre Workshop</a> in 1959 and remained active with its board of directors.<sup id="cite_ref-Academy_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Academy-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-als_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-als-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Exploring the Caribbean and its history in a colonialist and post-colonialist context, his collection <i>In a Green Night: Poems 1948–1960</i> (1962) attracted international attention.<sup id="cite_ref-pf_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pf-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His play <i><a href="/wiki/Dream_on_Monkey_Mountain" title="Dream on Monkey Mountain">Dream on Monkey Mountain</a></i> (1970) was produced on NBC-TV in the United States the year it was published. Makak is the protagonist in this play; and "Makak"s condition represents the condition of the colonized natives under the oppressive forces of the powerful colonizers".<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1971 it was produced by the <a href="/wiki/Negro_Ensemble_Company" title="Negro Ensemble Company">Negro Ensemble Company</a> off-Broadway in New York City; it won an <a href="/wiki/Obie_Award" title="Obie Award">Obie Award</a> that year for "Best Foreign Play".<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The following year, Walcott won an <a href="/wiki/Officer_of_the_Most_Excellent_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire">OBE</a> from the British government for his work.<sup id="cite_ref-Oxford_University_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Oxford_University-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He was hired as a teacher by <a href="/wiki/Boston_University" title="Boston University">Boston University</a> in the United States, where he founded the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Playwrights%27_Theatre" title="Boston Playwrights' Theatre">Boston Playwrights' Theatre</a> in 1981. That year he also received a <a href="/wiki/MacArthur_Foundation_Fellowship" class="mw-redirect" title="MacArthur Foundation Fellowship">MacArthur Foundation Fellowship</a> in the United States. Walcott taught literature and writing at Boston University for more than two decades, publishing new books of poetry and plays on a regular basis. Walcott retired from his position at Boston University in 2007. He became friends with other poets, including the Russian expatriate <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Brodsky" title="Joseph Brodsky">Joseph Brodsky</a>, who lived and worked in the U.S. after being exiled in the 1970s, and the Irishman <a href="/wiki/Seamus_Heaney" title="Seamus Heaney">Seamus Heaney</a>, who also taught in Boston.<sup id="cite_ref-als_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-als-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Walcott's epic poem <i><a href="/wiki/Omeros" title="Omeros">Omeros</a></i> (1990), which loosely echoes and refers to characters from the <i><a href="/wiki/Iliad" title="Iliad">Iliad</a></i>, has been critically praised as his "major achievement."<sup id="cite_ref-pf_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pf-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The book received praise from publications such as <i><a href="/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post">The Washington Post</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Book_Review" title="The New York Times Book Review">The New York Times Book Review</a></i>, which chose <i>Omeros</i> as one of its "Best Books of 1990".<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Walcott was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="Nobel Prize in Literature">Nobel Prize in Literature</a> in 1992, the second Caribbean writer to receive the honour after <a href="/wiki/Saint-John_Perse" title="Saint-John Perse">Saint-John Perse</a>, who was born in <a href="/wiki/Guadeloupe" title="Guadeloupe">Guadeloupe</a>, received the award in 1960. The Nobel committee described Walcott's work as "a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment".<sup id="cite_ref-pf_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pf-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He won an <a href="/wiki/Anisfield-Wolf_Book_Award" title="Anisfield-Wolf Book Award">Anisfield-Wolf Book Award</a><sup id="cite_ref-anisfield-wolf.org_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-anisfield-wolf.org-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> for Lifetime Achievement in 2004. </p><p>His later poetry collections include <i>Tiepolo's Hound</i> (2000), illustrated with copies of his watercolours;<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>The Prodigal</i> (2004), and <i>White Egrets</i> (2010), which received the T. S. Eliot Prize<sup id="cite_ref-pf_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pf-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-British_Council_13-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-British_Council-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the 2011 <a href="/wiki/OCM_Bocas_Prize_for_Caribbean_Literature" title="OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature">OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Derek Walcott held the Elias Ghanem Chair in Creative Writing at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Nevada,_Las_Vegas" title="University of Nevada, Las Vegas">University of Nevada, Las Vegas</a> in 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2008, Walcott gave the first <a href="/wiki/Cola_Debrot_Lecture" class="mw-redirect" title="Cola Debrot Lecture">Cola Debrot Lectures</a><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2009, Walcott began a three-year distinguished scholar-in-residence position at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Alberta" title="University of Alberta">University of Alberta</a>. In 2010, he became Professor of Poetry at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Essex" title="University of Essex">University of Essex</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-UoE_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UoE-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As a part of St Lucia's Independence Day celebrations, in February 2016, he became one of the first knights of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Saint_Lucia" title="Order of Saint Lucia">Order of Saint Lucia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-list_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-list-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Writing">Writing</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Derek_Walcott&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Writing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Derek_Walcott_-_Omeros.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Derek_Walcott_-_Omeros.jpg/300px-Derek_Walcott_-_Omeros.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="225" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Derek_Walcott_-_Omeros.jpg/450px-Derek_Walcott_-_Omeros.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Derek_Walcott_-_Omeros.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="450" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Wall_poems_in_Leiden" title="Wall poems in Leiden">Wall poem "Omeros" in Leiden</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:WallPoemTheHagueDerekWalcott.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/WallPoemTheHagueDerekWalcott.JPG/300px-WallPoemTheHagueDerekWalcott.JPG" decoding="async" width="300" height="225" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/WallPoemTheHagueDerekWalcott.JPG/450px-WallPoemTheHagueDerekWalcott.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/WallPoemTheHagueDerekWalcott.JPG/600px-WallPoemTheHagueDerekWalcott.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2816" data-file-height="2112" /></a><figcaption>Wall poem "Midsummer, Tobago" in <a href="/wiki/The_Hague" title="The Hague">The Hague</a></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Themes">Themes</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Derek_Walcott&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Themes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Methodism" title="Methodism">Methodism</a> and spirituality have played a significant role from the beginning in Walcott's work. He commented: "I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a <a href="/wiki/Vocation" title="Vocation">vocation</a>, a religious vocation." Describing his writing process, he wrote: "the body feels it is melting into what it has seen… the 'I' not being important. That is the ecstasy... Ultimately, it's what <a href="/wiki/Yeats" class="mw-redirect" title="Yeats">Yeats</a> says: 'Such a sweetness flows into the breast that we laugh at everything and everything we look upon is blessed.' That's always there. It's a benediction, a transference. It's gratitude, really. The more of that a poet keeps, the more genuine his nature."<sup id="cite_ref-Paris_Review_6-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Paris_Review-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also notes: "if one thinks a poem is coming on... you do make a retreat, a withdrawal into some kind of silence that cuts out everything around you. What you're taking on is really not a renewal of your identity but actually a renewal of your anonymity."<sup id="cite_ref-Paris_Review_6-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Paris_Review-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Influences">Influences</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Derek_Walcott&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Influences"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Walcott said that his writing was influenced by the work of the American poets <a href="/wiki/Robert_Lowell" title="Robert Lowell">Robert Lowell</a> and <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Bishop" title="Elizabeth Bishop">Elizabeth Bishop</a>, who were also friends.<sup id="cite_ref-Paris_Review_6-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Paris_Review-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Playwriting">Playwriting</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Derek_Walcott&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Playwriting"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He published more than twenty plays, the majority of which have been produced by the <a href="/wiki/Trinidad_Theatre_Workshop" title="Trinidad Theatre Workshop">Trinidad Theatre Workshop</a> and have also been widely staged elsewhere. Many of them address, either directly or indirectly, the liminal status of the West Indies in the post-colonial period.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Through poetry he also explores the paradoxes and complexities of this legacy.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Essays">Essays</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Derek_Walcott&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Essays"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In his 1970 essay "What the Twilight Says: An Overture", discussing art and theatre in his native region (from <i>Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays</i>), Walcott reflects on the West Indies as a colonized space. He discusses the problems for an artist of a region with little in the way of truly <a href="/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas" title="Indigenous peoples of the Americas">Indigenous</a> forms, and with little national or nationalist identity. He states: "We are all strangers here... Our bodies think in one language and move in another". The epistemological effects of colonization inform plays such as <i>Ti-Jean and his Brothers</i>. Mi-Jean, one of the eponymous brothers, is shown to have much information but truly knows nothing. Every line Mi-Jean recites is rote knowledge gained from the coloniser; he is unable to synthesize it or apply it to his life as a colonised person.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Walcott notes of growing up in West Indian culture: </p> <blockquote><p>What we were deprived of was also our privilege. There was a great joy in making a world that so far, up to then, had been undefined... My generation of West Indian writers has felt such a powerful elation at having the privilege of writing about places and people for the first time and, simultaneously, having behind them the tradition of knowing how well it can be done—by a <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Defoe" title="Daniel Defoe">Defoe</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Dickens</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Henry_Handel_Richardson" title="Henry Handel Richardson">Richardson</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Paris_Review_6-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Paris_Review-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Walcott identified as "absolutely a Caribbean writer", a pioneer, helping to make sense of the legacy of deep colonial damage.<sup id="cite_ref-Paris_Review_6-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Paris_Review-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In such poems as "The Castaway" (1965) and in the play <i><a href="/wiki/Pantomime_(Walcott_play)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pantomime (Walcott play)">Pantomime</a></i> (1978), he uses the metaphors of shipwreck and <a href="/wiki/Robinson_Crusoe" title="Robinson Crusoe">Crusoe</a> to describe the culture and what is required of artists after colonialism and slavery: both the freedom and the challenge to begin again, salvage the best of other cultures and make something new. These images recur in later work as well. He writes: "If we continue to sulk and say, Look at what the slave-owner did, and so forth, we will never mature. While we sit moping or writing morose poems and novels that glorify a non-existent past, then time passes us by."<sup id="cite_ref-Paris_Review_6-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Paris_Review-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Omeros"><i>Omeros</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Derek_Walcott&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Omeros"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Omeros" title="Omeros">Omeros</a></div> <p>Walcott's epic book-length poem <i><a href="/wiki/Omeros" title="Omeros">Omeros</a></i> was published in 1990 to critical acclaim. The poem very loosely echoes and references <a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a> and some of his major characters from <i><a href="/wiki/The_Iliad" class="mw-redirect" title="The Iliad">The Iliad</a></i>. Some of the poem's major characters include the island fishermen Achille and Hector, the retired English officer Major Plunkett and his wife Maud, the housemaid Helen, the blind man Seven Seas (who symbolically represents Homer), and the author himself.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Although the main narrative of the poem takes place on the island of St. Lucia, where Walcott was born and raised, Walcott also includes scenes from <a href="/wiki/Brookline,_Massachusetts" title="Brookline, Massachusetts">Brookline, Massachusetts</a> (where Walcott was living and teaching at the time of the poem's composition), and the character Achille imagines a voyage from Africa onto a slave ship that is headed for the Americas; also, in Book Five of the poem, Walcott narrates some of his travel experiences in a variety of cities around the world, including <a href="/wiki/Lisbon" title="Lisbon">Lisbon</a>, London, <a href="/wiki/Dublin" title="Dublin">Dublin</a>, Rome, and Toronto.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Composed in a variation on <i><a href="/wiki/Terza_rima" title="Terza rima">terza rima</a></i>, the work explores the themes that run throughout Walcott's oeuvre: the beauty of the islands, the colonial burden, the fragmentation of Caribbean identity, and the role of the poet in a post-colonial world.<sup id="cite_ref-Bixby_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bixby-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In this epic, Walcott speaks in favour of unique Caribbean cultures and traditions to challenge the modernity that existed as a consequence of colonialism.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Criticism_and_praise">Criticism and praise</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Derek_Walcott&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Criticism and praise"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Walcott's work has received praise from major poets including <a href="/wiki/Robert_Graves" title="Robert Graves">Robert Graves</a>, who wrote that Walcott "handles English with a closer understanding of its inner magic than most, if not any, of his contemporaries",<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Brodsky" title="Joseph Brodsky">Joseph Brodsky</a>, who praised Walcott's work, writing: "For almost forty years his throbbing and relentless lines kept arriving in the English language like tidal waves, coagulating into an archipelago of poems without which the map of modern literature would effectively match wallpaper. He gives us more than himself or 'a world'; he gives us a sense of infinity embodied in the language."<sup id="cite_ref-Academy_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Academy-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Walcott noted that he, Brodsky, and the Irish poet <a href="/wiki/Seamus_Heaney" title="Seamus Heaney">Seamus Heaney</a>, who all taught in the United States, were a band of poets "outside the American experience". </p><p>The poetry critic <a href="/wiki/William_Logan_(poet)" title="William Logan (poet)">William Logan</a> critiqued Walcott's work in a <i>New York Times</i> book review of Walcott's <i>Selected Poems</i>. While he praised Walcott's writing in <i>Sea Grapes</i> and <i>The Arkansas Testament</i>, Logan had mostly negative things to say about Walcott's poetry, calling <i>Omeros</i> "clumsy" and <i>Another Life</i> "pretentious". Logan concluded with: "No living poet has written verse more delicately rendered or distinguished than Walcott, though few individual poems seem destined to be remembered."<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Most reviews of Walcott's work are more positive. For instance, in <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker">The New Yorker</a></i> review of <i>The Poetry of Derek Walcott</i>, <a href="/wiki/Adam_Kirsch" title="Adam Kirsch">Adam Kirsch</a> had high praise for Walcott's oeuvre, describing his style in the following manner: </p> <blockquote><p>By combining the grammar of vision with the freedom of metaphor, Walcott produces a beautiful style that is also a philosophical style. People perceive the world on dual channels, Walcott's verse suggests, through the senses and through the mind, and each is constantly seeping into the other. The result is a state of perpetual magical thinking, a kind of <i><a href="/wiki/Alice_in_Wonderland" class="mw-redirect" title="Alice in Wonderland">Alice in Wonderland</a></i> world where concepts have bodies and landscapes are always liable to get up and start talking.<sup id="cite_ref-Kirsch_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kirsch-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Kirsch calls <i>Another Life</i> Walcott's "first major peak" and analyzes the painterly qualities of Walcott's imagery from his earliest work through to later books such as <i>Tiepolo's Hound</i>. Kirsch also explores the post-colonial politics in Walcott's work, calling him "the postcolonial writer par excellence". Kirsch calls the early poem "A Far Cry from Africa" a turning point in Walcott's development as a poet. Like Logan, Kirsch is critical of <i>Omeros</i>, which he believes Walcott fails to successfully sustain over its entirety. Although <i>Omeros</i> is the volume of Walcott's that usually receives the most critical praise, Kirsch believes <i>Midsummer</i> to be his best book.<sup id="cite_ref-Kirsch_35-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kirsch-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2013 Dutch filmmaker Ida Does released <i>Poetry is an Island</i>, a feature documentary film about Walcott's life and the ever-present influence of his birthplace of <a href="/wiki/St_Lucia" class="mw-redirect" title="St Lucia">St Lucia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Derek_Walcott&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1954 Walcott married Fay Moston, a secretary, and they had a son, the St. Lucian painter Peter Walcott. The marriage ended in divorce in 1959. Walcott married a second time to Margaret Maillard in 1962, who worked as an <a href="/wiki/Almoner" title="Almoner">almoner</a> in a hospital. Together they had two daughters, <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Walcott-Hackshaw" title="Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw">Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw</a> and Anna Walcott-Hardy, before divorcing in 1976.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1976, Walcott married for a third time, to actress Norline Metivier; they divorced in 1993. His companion until his death was Sigrid Nama, a former art gallery owner.<sup id="cite_ref-als_14-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-als-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-iww_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-iww-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-LofStL_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LofStL-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Walcott was also known for his passion for travelling to countries around the world. He split his time between New York, Boston, and St. Lucia, and incorporated the influences of different locations into his pieces of work.<sup id="cite_ref-pf_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pf-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Allegations_of_sexual_harassment">Allegations of sexual harassment</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Derek_Walcott&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Allegations of sexual harassment"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1982, a Harvard sophomore accused Walcott of sexual harassment in September 1981. She alleged that after she refused a sexual advance from him, she was given the only C in the class. In 1996 a student at Boston University sued Walcott for sexual harassment and "offensive sexual physical contact". The two reached a settlement.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2009, Walcott was a leading candidate for the position of <a href="/wiki/Oxford_Professor_of_Poetry" class="mw-redirect" title="Oxford Professor of Poetry">Oxford Professor of Poetry</a>. He withdrew his candidacy after reports of the accusations against him of sexual harassment from 1981 and 1996.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When the media learned that pages from an American book on the topic were sent anonymously to a number of Oxford academics, this aroused their interest in the university's decisions.<sup id="cite_ref-Woods_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Woods-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Ch4News_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ch4News-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Ruth_Padel" title="Ruth Padel">Ruth Padel</a>, also a leading candidate, was elected to the post. Within days, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Daily_Telegraph" title="The Daily Telegraph">The Daily Telegraph</a></i> reported that she had alerted journalists to the harassment cases.<sup id="cite_ref-Khan_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Khan-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Padel_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Padel-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Under severe media and academic pressure, Padel resigned.<sup id="cite_ref-Khan_47-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Khan-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Hay_festival_diary_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hay_festival_diary-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Padel was the first woman to be elected to the Oxford post, and some journalists attributed the criticism of her to misogyny<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a gender war at Oxford. They said that a male poet would not have been so criticized, as she had reported published information, not rumour.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Numerous respected poets, including <a href="/wiki/Seamus_Heaney" title="Seamus Heaney">Seamus Heaney</a> and <a href="/wiki/Al_Alvarez" title="Al Alvarez">Al Alvarez</a>, published a letter of support for Walcott in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Times_Literary_Supplement" title="The Times Literary Supplement">The Times Literary Supplement</a>,</i> and criticized the press furore.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other commentators suggested that both poets were casualties of the media interest in an internal university affair because the story "had everything, from sex claims to allegations of character assassination".<sup id="cite_ref-enotes_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-enotes-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Simon_Armitage" title="Simon Armitage">Simon Armitage</a> and other poets expressed regret at Padel's resignation.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Derek_Walcott&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Derek_Walcott%27s_grave_on_Morne_Fortune.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Derek_Walcott%27s_grave_on_Morne_Fortune.jpg/220px-Derek_Walcott%27s_grave_on_Morne_Fortune.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="391" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Derek_Walcott%27s_grave_on_Morne_Fortune.jpg/330px-Derek_Walcott%27s_grave_on_Morne_Fortune.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Derek_Walcott%27s_grave_on_Morne_Fortune.jpg/440px-Derek_Walcott%27s_grave_on_Morne_Fortune.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2988" data-file-height="5312" /></a><figcaption>Walcott's grave on Morne Fortune</figcaption></figure> <p>Walcott died at his home in Cap Estate, St. Lucia, on 17 March 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was 87. He was given a state funeral on Saturday, 25 March, with a service at the <a href="/wiki/Cathedral_Basilica_of_the_Immaculate_Conception_in_Castries" class="mw-redirect" title="Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Castries">Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Castries</a> and burial at <a href="/wiki/Morne_Fortune" title="Morne Fortune">Morne Fortune</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Derek_Walcott&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1993, a public square and park located in central Castries, Saint Lucia, was named <a href="/wiki/Derek_Walcott_Square" title="Derek Walcott Square">Derek Walcott Square</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A documentary film, <i>Poetry Is an Island: Derek Walcott</i>, by filmmaker <a href="/wiki/Ida_Does" title="Ida Does">Ida Does</a>, was produced to honour him and his legacy in 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Saint_Lucia_National_Trust" title="Saint Lucia National Trust">Saint Lucia National Trust</a> acquired Walcott's childhood home at 17 Chaussée Road, Castries, in November 2015, renovating it before opening it to the public as Walcott House in January 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2019, Arrowsmith Press, in partnership with The Derek Walcott Festival in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, and the Boston Playwrights' Theatre, began awarding the annual Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry to a full-length book of poems by a living poet who is not a US citizen published in the previous calendar year.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In January 2020, the <a href="/wiki/Sir_Arthur_Lewis_Community_College" title="Sir Arthur Lewis Community College">Sir Arthur Lewis Community College</a> in St. Lucia announced that Walcott's books on Caribbean Literature and poetry have been donated to its Library.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_honours">Awards and honours</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Derek_Walcott&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Awards and honours"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1969: <a href="/wiki/Cholmondeley_Award" title="Cholmondeley Award">Cholmondeley Award</a><sup id="cite_ref-chidi_66-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chidi-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1971: <a href="/wiki/Obie_Award" title="Obie Award">Obie Award</a> for Best Foreign Play (for <i>Dream on Monkey Mountain</i>)<sup id="cite_ref-chidi_66-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chidi-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1972: <a href="/wiki/Officer_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Officer of the Order of the British Empire">Officer of the Order of the British Empire</a><sup id="cite_ref-Oxford_University_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Oxford_University-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1981: MacArthur Foundation Fellowship ("genius award")<sup id="cite_ref-chidi_66-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chidi-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1988: <a href="/wiki/Queen%27s_Gold_Medal_for_Poetry" class="mw-redirect" title="Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry">Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry</a><sup id="cite_ref-iww_39-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-iww-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1990: <a href="/wiki/Arts_Council_of_Wales" title="Arts Council of Wales">Arts Council of Wales</a> International Writers Prize<sup id="cite_ref-chidi_66-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chidi-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1990: <a href="/wiki/W._H._Smith_Literary_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="W. H. Smith Literary Award">W. H. Smith Literary Award</a> (for poetry <i>Omeros</i>)<sup id="cite_ref-iww_39-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-iww-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1992: <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="Nobel Prize in Literature">Nobel Prize in Literature</a><sup id="cite_ref-iww_39-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-iww-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2004: <a href="/wiki/Anisfield-Wolf_Book_Award" title="Anisfield-Wolf Book Award">Anisfield-Wolf Book Award</a> for Lifetime Achievement<sup id="cite_ref-anisfield-wolf.org_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-anisfield-wolf.org-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2008: Honorary doctorate from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Essex" title="University of Essex">University of Essex</a><sup id="cite_ref-UoE_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UoE-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2011: <a href="/wiki/T._S._Eliot_Prize" title="T. S. Eliot Prize">T. S. Eliot Prize</a> (for poetry collection <i>White Egrets</i>)<sup id="cite_ref-Eliot_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Eliot-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2011: <a href="/wiki/OCM_Bocas_Prize_for_Caribbean_Literature" title="OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature">OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature</a> (for <i>White Egrets</i>)<sup id="cite_ref-bocas_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bocas-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2015: <a href="/wiki/Griffin_Poetry_Prize" title="Griffin Poetry Prize">Griffin Trust For Excellence in Poetry</a> Lifetime Recognition Award<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2016: <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Saint_Lucia" title="Order of Saint Lucia">Knight Commander of the Order of Saint Lucia</a><sup id="cite_ref-list_25-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-list-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="List_of_works">List of works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Derek_Walcott&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: List of works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL32247A">Works by Derek Walcott</a> at <a href="/wiki/Open_Library" title="Open Library">Open Library</a> <span class="mw-valign-text-top noprint" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q132701#P648" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" 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.div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col"> <ul><li>1948: <i>25 Poems</i></li> <li>1949: <i>Epitaph for the Young: Xll Cantos</i></li> <li>1951: <i>Poems</i></li> <li>1962: <i>In a Green Night: Poems 1948—60</i></li> <li>1964: <i>Selected Poems</i></li> <li>1965: <i>The Castaway and Other Poems</i></li> <li>1969: <i>The Gulf and Other Poems</i></li> <li>1973: <i>Another Life</i></li> <li>1976: <i>Sea Grapes</i></li> <li>1979: <i>The Star-Apple Kingdom</i></li> <li>1981: <i>Selected Poetry</i></li> <li>1981: <i>The Fortunate Traveller</i></li> <li>1983: <i>The Caribbean Poetry of Derek Walcott and the Art of Romare Bearden</i></li> <li>1984: <i>Midsummer</i></li> <li>1986: <i>Collected Poems, 1948–1984</i>, featuring "<a href="/wiki/Love_After_Love_(poem)" title="Love After Love (poem)">Love After Love</a>"</li> <li>1987: <i>The Arkansas Testament</i></li> <li>1990: <i><a href="/wiki/Omeros" title="Omeros">Omeros</a></i></li> <li>1997: <i>The Bounty</i></li> <li>2000: <i>Tiepolo's Hound,</i> includes Walcott's watercolors</li> <li>2004: <i>The Prodigal</i></li> <li>2007: <i>Selected Poems</i> (edited, selected, and with an introduction by <a href="/wiki/Edward_Baugh" title="Edward Baugh">Edward Baugh</a>)</li> <li>2010: <i>White Egrets</i></li> <li>2014: <i>The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948–2013</i></li> <li>2016: <i>Morning, Paramin</i> (illustrated by Peter Doig)</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Plays">Plays</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Derek_Walcott&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Plays"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col"> <ul><li>1950: <i><a href="/wiki/Henri_Christophe:_A_Chronicle_in_Seven_Scenes" title="Henri Christophe: A Chronicle in Seven Scenes">Henri Christophe: A Chronicle in Seven Scenes</a></i></li> <li>1952: <i><a href="/wiki/Harry_Dernier:_A_Play_for_Radio_Production" class="mw-redirect" title="Harry Dernier: A Play for Radio Production">Harry Dernier: A Play for Radio Production</a></i></li> <li>1953: <i>Wine of the Country</i></li> <li>1954: <i>The Sea at Dauphin: A Play in One Act</i></li> <li>1957: <i>Ione</i></li> <li>1958: <i>Drums and Colours: An Epic Drama</i></li> <li>1958: <i>Ti-Jean and His Brothers</i></li> <li>1966: <i>Malcochon: or, Six in the Rain</i></li> <li>1967: <i><a href="/wiki/Dream_on_Monkey_Mountain" title="Dream on Monkey Mountain">Dream on Monkey Mountain</a></i></li> <li>1970: <i>In a Fine Castle</i></li> <li>1974: <i>The Joker of Seville</i></li> <li>1974: <i>The Charlatan</i></li> <li>1976: <i>O Babylon!</i></li> <li>1977: <i>Remembrance</i></li> <li>1978: <i>Pantomime</i></li> <li>1980: <i>The Joker of Seville and O Babylon!: Two Plays</i></li> <li>1982: <i>The Isle Is Full of Noises</i></li> <li>1984: <i>The Haitian Earth</i></li> <li>1986: Three Plays: <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Last_Carnival&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Last Carnival (page does not exist)">The Last Carnival</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Beef,_No_Chicken" title="Beef, No Chicken">Beef, No Chicken</a></i>, and <i>A Branch of the Blue Nile</i></li> <li>1991: <i>Steel</i></li> <li>1993: <i>Odyssey: A Stage Version</i></li> <li>1997: <i><a href="/wiki/The_Capeman" title="The Capeman">The Capeman</a></i> (book and lyrics, both in collaboration with <a href="/wiki/Paul_Simon" title="Paul Simon">Paul Simon</a>)</li> <li>2002: <i>Walker and The Ghost Dance</i></li> <li>2011: <i>Moon-Child</i></li> <li>2014: <i>O Starry Starry Night</i></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_books">Other books</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Derek_Walcott&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Other books"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1990: <i>The Poet in the Theatre</i>, Poetry Book Society (London)</li> <li>1993: <i>The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory</i> (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux)</li> <li>1996: <i>Conversations with Derek Walcott</i>, (Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi)</li> <li>1996: (With Joseph Brodsky and Seamus Heaney) <i>Homage to Robert Frost</i> (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux)</li> <li>1998: <i>What the Twilight Says</i> (essays), (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux)</li> <li>2002: <i>Walker and Ghost Dance</i> (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux)</li> <li>2004: <i>Another Life: Fully Annotated</i>, Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Derek_Walcott&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Black_Nobel_Prize_laureates" class="mw-redirect" title="Black Nobel Prize laureates">Black Nobel Prize laureates</a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Love_After_Love_(poem)" title="Love After Love (poem)">Love After Love</a>", a poem by Derek Walcott</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Omeros" title="Omeros">Omeros</a>, epic poetry by Derek Walcott</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caribbean_poetry" title="Caribbean poetry">Caribbean Epic</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1992/walcott-bio.html">"Derek Walcott – Biographical"</a>. Nobel Foundation. 1992. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180617120042/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1992/walcott-bio.html">Archived</a> from the original on 17 June 2018<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Chicago, IL: Poetry Foundation. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160402003921/http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/derek-walcott">Archived</a> from the original on 2 April 2016<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">18 March</span> 2017</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Derek+Walcott+1930%E2%80%932017&rft.place=Chicago%2C+IL&rft.pub=Poetry+Foundation&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.poetryfoundation.org%2Fbio%2Fderek-walcott&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADerek+Walcott" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-bocas-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-bocas_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-bocas_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/Derek_Walcott_wins_OCM_Bocas_Prize-121040233.html">"Derek Walcott wins OCM Bocas Prize"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160315153758/http://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/Derek_Walcott_wins_OCM_Bocas_Prize-121040233.html">Archived</a> 15 March 2016 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, <i>Trinidad Express Newspapers</i>, 30 April 2011.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Eliot-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Eliot_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Eliot_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Charlotte Higgins, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jan/24/ts-eliot-prize-derek-walcott">"TS Eliot prize goes to Derek Walcott for 'moving and technically flawless' work".</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230612134545/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jan/24/ts-eliot-prize-derek-walcott">Archived</a> 12 June 2023 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> <i>The Guardian</i>, 24 January 2011.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMayer2004" class="citation magazine cs1">Mayer, Jane (9 February 2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/02/09/the-islander">"The Islander"</a>. <i>The New Yorker</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190109011427/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/02/09/the-islander">Archived</a> from the original on 9 January 2019<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Norton & Company, 2013.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Grimes-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Grimes_8-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGrimes2017" class="citation news cs1">Grimes, William (17 March 2017). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220101/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/17/books/derek-walcott-dead-nobel-prize-literature.html">"Derek Walcott, Poet and Nobel Laureate of the Caribbean, Dies at 87"</a>. <i>The New York Times</i>. Archived from <span class="id-lock-limited" title="Free access subject to limited trial, subscription normally required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/17/books/derek-walcott-dead-nobel-prize-literature.html">the original</a></span> on 1 January 2022<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Oakville, Ontario: The Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry. 3 June 2015. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170329164521/http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/awards-and-poets/lifetime-recognition-award/derek-walcott/">Archived</a> from the original on 29 March 2017<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">5 April</span> 2017</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=2015+%E2%80%93+Derek+Walcott&rft.place=Oakville%2C+Ontario&rft.pub=The+Griffin+Trust+for+Excellence+in+Poetry&rft.date=2015-06-03&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.griffinpoetryprize.com%2Fawards-and-poets%2Flifetime-recognition-award%2Fderek-walcott%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADerek+Walcott" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Derek_Walcott&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Abani, Chris. <i>The myth of fingerprints: Signifying as displacement in Derek Walcott's "Omeros".</i> University of Southern California, PhD dissertation. 2006.</li> <li>Abodunrin, Femi. "The Muse of History: Derek Walcott and the Topos of {Un} naming in West Indian Writing". <i>Journal of West Indian Literature</i> 7, no. 1 (1996): 54–77.</li> <li>Amany Abdelkahhar Aldardeer Ahmed, Amany. "The Quest for a Cultural Identity in Derek Walcott's Another Life". مجلة کلية الآداب 57, no. 3 (2020): 101–146.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Baer_(poet)" class="mw-redirect" title="William Baer (poet)">Baer, William</a>, ed. <i>Conversations with Derek Walcott</i>. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1996.</li> <li>Baugh, Edward, <i>Derek Walcott</i>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.</li> <li>Breslin, Paul, <i>Nobody's Nation: Reading Derek Walcott</i>. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-226-07426-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-226-07426-9">0-226-07426-9</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stewart_Brown" title="Stewart Brown">Brown, Stewart</a>, ed., <i>The Art of Derek Walcott</i>. Chester Springs, PA.: Dufour, 1991; Bridgend: Seren Books, 1992.</li> <li>Burnett, Paula, <i>Derek Walcott: Politics and Poetics</i>. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001.</li> <li>Figueroa, John J. "Some subtleties of the isle: A commentary on certain aspects of Derek Walcott's sonnet sequence. <i>Tales of the Islands.</i> (1976): 190–228.</li> <li>Fumagalli, Maria Cristina, <i>The Flight of the Vernacular: Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott and the Impress of Dante</i>. Amsterdam-New York: Rodopi, 2001.</li> <li>Fumagalli, Maria Cristina, <i>Agenda</i> 39:1–3 (2002–03), Special Issue on Derek Walcott. Includes Derek Walcott's "Epitaph for the Young" (1949), republished here in its entirety.</li> <li>Goddard, Horace I. "Untangling the thematic threads: Derek Walcott's poetry." <i>Kola</i> 21, no. 1 (2009): 120–131.</li> <li>Goddard, Horace I. "The Rediscovery of Ancestral Experience in Derek Walcott's Early Poetry." <i>Kola</i> 29, no. 2 (2017): 24–40.</li> <li>Hamner, Robert D., <i>Derek Walcott</i>. Updated edition. Twayne's World Authors Series. TWAS 600. New York: Twayne, 1993.</li> <li>Izevbaye, D. S. "The Exile and the Prodigal: Derek Walcott as West Indian Poet." <i>Caribbean Quarterly</i> 26, no. 1–2 (1980): 70–82.</li> <li>King, Bruce, <i>Derek Walcott and West Indian Drama: "Not Only a Playwright But a Company": The Trinidad Theatre Workshop 1959–1993</i>. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995.</li> <li>King, Bruce, <i>Derek Walcott, A Caribbean Life</i>. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.</li> <li>Marks, Susan Jane. <i>That terrible vowel, that I: autobiography and Derek Walcott's Another life.</i> Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1989.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMcConnell2023" class="citation book cs1">McConnell, Justine (2023). <i>Derek Walcott and the creation of a classical Caribbean</i>. London: Bloomsbury Academic. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781474291521" title="Special:BookSources/9781474291521"><bdi>9781474291521</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Derek+Walcott+and+the+creation+of+a+classical+Caribbean&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Bloomsbury+Academic&rft.date=2023&rft.isbn=9781474291521&rft.aulast=McConnell&rft.aufirst=Justine&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADerek+Walcott" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMüller2016" class="citation journal cs1">Müller, Timo (2016). "Forms of Exile: Experimental Self-Positioning in Postcolonial Caribbean Poetry". <i>Atlantic Studies</i>. <b>13</b> (4): <span class="nowrap">457–</span>471. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1080%2F14788810.2016.1220790">10.1080/14788810.2016.1220790</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:152181840">152181840</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Atlantic+Studies&rft.atitle=Forms+of+Exile%3A+Experimental+Self-Positioning+in+Postcolonial+Caribbean+Poetry&rft.volume=13&rft.issue=4&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E457-%3C%2Fspan%3E471&rft.date=2016&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1080%2F14788810.2016.1220790&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A152181840%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft.aulast=M%C3%BCller&rft.aufirst=Timo&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADerek+Walcott" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSarkar,_Nirjhar2019" class="citation journal cs1 cs1-prop-long-vol">Sarkar, Nirjhar (14 October 2019). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/anthurium/vol14/iss2/4/">"Existence as self-making in Derek Walcott's <i>The Sea at Dauphin</i>"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Anthurium:_A_Caribbean_Studies_Journal" class="mw-redirect" title="Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal">Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal</a></i>. 14.2 (2018): <span class="nowrap">1–</span>15.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Anthurium%3A+A+Caribbean+Studies+Journal&rft.atitle=Existence+as+self-making+in+Derek+Walcott%27s+The+Sea+at+Dauphin&rft.volume=14.2+%282018%29&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E1-%3C%2Fspan%3E15&rft.date=2019-10-14&rft.au=Sarkar%2C+Nirjhar&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fscholarlyrepository.miami.edu%2Fanthurium%2Fvol14%2Fiss2%2F4%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADerek+Walcott" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Sinnewe, Dirk :<i>Divided to the Vein? Derek Walcott‘s drama and the formation of cultural Identities.</i> Königshausen u. Neumann, Dec. 2001.</li> <li>Terada, Rei, <i>Derek Walcott's Poetry: American Mimicry</i>. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1992.</li> <li>Thieme, John, <i>Derek Walcott</i>. 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0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1901_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1901 Nobel Prize in Literature">1901</a>: <a href="/wiki/Sully_Prudhomme" title="Sully Prudhomme">Sully Prudhomme</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1902_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1902 Nobel Prize in Literature">1902</a>: <a href="/wiki/Theodor_Mommsen" title="Theodor Mommsen">Theodor Mommsen</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1903_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1903 Nobel Prize in Literature">1903</a>: <a href="/wiki/Bj%C3%B8rnstjerne_Bj%C3%B8rnson" title="Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson">Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1904_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1904 Nobel Prize in Literature">1904</a>: <a href="/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Mistral" title="Frédéric Mistral">Frédéric Mistral</a> / <a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Echegaray" title="José Echegaray">José Echegaray</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a 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title="Selma Lagerlöf">Selma Lagerlöf</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1910_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1910 Nobel Prize in Literature">1910</a>: <a href="/wiki/Paul_Heyse" title="Paul Heyse">Paul Heyse</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1911_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1911 Nobel Prize in Literature">1911</a>: <a href="/wiki/Maurice_Maeterlinck" title="Maurice Maeterlinck">Maurice Maeterlinck</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1912_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1912 Nobel Prize in Literature">1912</a>: <a href="/wiki/Gerhart_Hauptmann" title="Gerhart Hauptmann">Gerhart Hauptmann</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1913_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1913 Nobel Prize in Literature">1913</a>: <a href="/wiki/Rabindranath_Tagore" title="Rabindranath Tagore">Rabindranath Tagore</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:darkgrey"><a 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Literature">1918</a></span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1919_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1919 Nobel Prize in Literature">1919</a>: <a href="/wiki/Carl_Spitteler" title="Carl Spitteler">Carl Spitteler</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1920_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1920 Nobel Prize in Literature">1920</a>: <a href="/wiki/Knut_Hamsun" title="Knut Hamsun">Knut Hamsun</a></span></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="7" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ed/Nobel_Prize.png/80px-Nobel_Prize.png" decoding="async" width="80" height="79" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ed/Nobel_Prize.png/120px-Nobel_Prize.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ed/Nobel_Prize.png/160px-Nobel_Prize.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="492" 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B. Yeats">W. B. Yeats</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1923_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1923 Nobel Prize in Literature">1924</a>: <a href="/wiki/W%C5%82adys%C5%82aw_Reymont" title="Władysław Reymont">Władysław Reymont</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1925_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1925 Nobel Prize in Literature">1925</a>: <a href="/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw" title="George Bernard Shaw">George Bernard Shaw</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1926_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1926 Nobel Prize in Literature">1926</a>: <a href="/wiki/Grazia_Deledda" title="Grazia Deledda">Grazia Deledda</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1927_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1927 Nobel Prize in Literature">1927</a>: <a href="/wiki/Henri_Bergson" title="Henri Bergson">Henri Bergson</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1928_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1928 Nobel Prize in Literature">1928</a>: <a href="/wiki/Sigrid_Undset" title="Sigrid Undset">Sigrid Undset</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1929_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1929 Nobel Prize in Literature">1929</a>: <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Mann" title="Thomas Mann">Thomas Mann</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1930_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1930 Nobel Prize in Literature">1930</a>: <a href="/wiki/Sinclair_Lewis" title="Sinclair Lewis">Sinclair Lewis</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1931_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1931 Nobel Prize in Literature">1931</a>: <a href="/wiki/Erik_Axel_Karlfeldt" title="Erik Axel Karlfeldt">Erik Axel Karlfeldt</a> (<i>posthumously</i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1932_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1932 Nobel Prize in Literature">1932</a>: <a href="/wiki/John_Galsworthy" title="John Galsworthy">John Galsworthy</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1933_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1933 Nobel Prize in Literature">1933</a>: <a href="/wiki/Ivan_Bunin" title="Ivan Bunin">Ivan Bunin</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1934_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1934 Nobel Prize in Literature">1934</a>: <a href="/wiki/Luigi_Pirandello" title="Luigi Pirandello">Luigi Pirandello</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:darkgrey"><a href="/wiki/1935_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1935 Nobel Prize in Literature">1935</a></span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1936_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1936 Nobel Prize in Literature">1936</a>: <a href="/wiki/Eugene_O%27Neill" title="Eugene O'Neill">Eugene O'Neill</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1937_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1937 Nobel Prize in Literature">1937</a>: <a href="/wiki/Roger_Martin_du_Gard" title="Roger Martin du Gard">Roger Martin du Gard</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1938_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1938 Nobel Prize in Literature">1938</a>: <a href="/wiki/Pearl_S._Buck" title="Pearl S. Buck">Pearl S. Buck</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1939_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1939 Nobel Prize in Literature">1939</a>: <a href="/wiki/Frans_Eemil_Sillanp%C3%A4%C3%A4" title="Frans Eemil Sillanpää">Frans Eemil Sillanpää</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:darkgrey"><a href="/wiki/1940_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1940 Nobel Prize in Literature">1940</a></span></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1941–1960</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:darkgrey"><a href="/wiki/1941_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1941 Nobel Prize in Literature">1941</a></span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:darkgrey"><a href="/wiki/1942_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1942 Nobel Prize in Literature">1942</a></span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:darkgrey"><a href="/wiki/1943_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1943 Nobel Prize in Literature">1943</a></span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1944_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1944 Nobel Prize in Literature">1944</a>: <a href="/wiki/Johannes_V._Jensen" title="Johannes V. Jensen">Johannes V. Jensen</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1945_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1945 Nobel Prize in Literature">1945</a>: <a href="/wiki/Gabriela_Mistral" title="Gabriela Mistral">Gabriela Mistral</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1946_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1946 Nobel Prize in Literature">1946</a>: <a href="/wiki/Hermann_Hesse" title="Hermann Hesse">Hermann Hesse</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1947_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1947 Nobel Prize in Literature">1947</a>: <a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Gide" title="André Gide">André Gide</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1948_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1948 Nobel Prize in Literature">1948</a>: <a href="/wiki/T._S._Eliot" title="T. S. Eliot">T. S. Eliot</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1949_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1949 Nobel Prize in Literature">1949</a>: <a href="/wiki/William_Faulkner" title="William Faulkner">William Faulkner</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1950_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1950 Nobel Prize in Literature">1950</a>: <a href="/wiki/Bertrand_Russell" title="Bertrand Russell">Bertrand Russell</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1951_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1951 Nobel Prize in Literature">1951</a>: <a href="/wiki/P%C3%A4r_Lagerkvist" title="Pär Lagerkvist">Pär Lagerkvist</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1952_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1952 Nobel Prize in Literature">1952</a>: <a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Mauriac" title="François Mauriac">François Mauriac</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1953_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1953 Nobel Prize in Literature">1953</a>: <a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1954_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1954 Nobel Prize in Literature">1954</a>: <a href="/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway" title="Ernest Hemingway">Ernest Hemingway</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1955_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1955 Nobel Prize in Literature">1955</a>: <a href="/wiki/Halld%C3%B3r_Laxness" title="Halldór Laxness">Halldór Laxness</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1956_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1956 Nobel Prize in Literature">1956</a>: <a href="/wiki/Juan_Ram%C3%B3n_Jim%C3%A9nez" title="Juan Ramón Jiménez">Juan Ramón Jiménez</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1957_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1957 Nobel Prize in Literature">1957</a>: <a href="/wiki/Albert_Camus" title="Albert Camus">Albert Camus</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1958_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1958 Nobel Prize in Literature">1958</a>: <a href="/wiki/Boris_Pasternak" title="Boris Pasternak">Boris Pasternak</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1959_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1959 Nobel Prize in Literature">1959</a>: <a href="/wiki/Salvatore_Quasimodo" title="Salvatore Quasimodo">Salvatore Quasimodo</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1960_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1960 Nobel Prize in Literature">1960</a>: <a href="/wiki/Saint-John_Perse" title="Saint-John Perse">Saint-John Perse</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1961–1980</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1961_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1961 Nobel Prize in Literature">1961</a>: <a href="/wiki/Ivo_Andri%C4%87" title="Ivo Andrić">Ivo Andrić</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1962_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1962 Nobel Prize in Literature">1962</a>: <a href="/wiki/John_Steinbeck" title="John Steinbeck">John Steinbeck</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1963_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1963 Nobel Prize in Literature">1963</a>: <a href="/wiki/Giorgos_Seferis" title="Giorgos Seferis">Giorgos Seferis</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1964_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1964 Nobel Prize in Literature">1964</a>: <a href="/wiki/Jean-Paul_Sartre" title="Jean-Paul Sartre">Jean-Paul Sartre</a> (declined award)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1965_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1965 Nobel Prize in Literature">1965</a>: <a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Sholokhov" title="Mikhail Sholokhov">Mikhail Sholokhov</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1966_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1966 Nobel Prize in Literature">1966</a>: <a href="/wiki/Shmuel_Yosef_Agnon" title="Shmuel Yosef Agnon">Shmuel Yosef Agnon</a> / <a href="/wiki/Nelly_Sachs" title="Nelly Sachs">Nelly Sachs</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1967_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1967 Nobel Prize in Literature">1967</a>: <a href="/wiki/Miguel_%C3%81ngel_Asturias" title="Miguel Ángel Asturias">Miguel Ángel Asturias</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1968_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1968 Nobel Prize in Literature">1968</a>: <a href="/wiki/Yasunari_Kawabata" title="Yasunari Kawabata">Yasunari Kawabata</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1969_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1969 Nobel Prize in Literature">1969</a>: <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Beckett" title="Samuel Beckett">Samuel Beckett</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1970_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1970 Nobel Prize in Literature">1970</a>: <a href="/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn" title="Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn">Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1971_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1971 Nobel Prize in Literature">1971</a>: <a href="/wiki/Pablo_Neruda" title="Pablo Neruda">Pablo Neruda</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1972_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1972 Nobel Prize in Literature">1972</a>: <a href="/wiki/Heinrich_B%C3%B6ll" title="Heinrich Böll">Heinrich Böll</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1973_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1973 Nobel Prize in Literature">1973</a>: <a href="/wiki/Patrick_White" title="Patrick White">Patrick White</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1974_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1974 Nobel Prize in Literature">1974</a>: <a href="/wiki/Eyvind_Johnson" title="Eyvind Johnson">Eyvind Johnson</a> / <a href="/wiki/Harry_Martinson" title="Harry Martinson">Harry Martinson</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1975_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1975 Nobel Prize in Literature">1975</a>: <a href="/wiki/Eugenio_Montale" title="Eugenio Montale">Eugenio Montale</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1976_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1976 Nobel Prize in Literature">1976</a>: <a href="/wiki/Saul_Bellow" title="Saul Bellow">Saul Bellow</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1977_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1977 Nobel Prize in Literature">1977</a>: <a href="/wiki/Vicente_Aleixandre" title="Vicente Aleixandre">Vicente Aleixandre</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1978_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1978 Nobel Prize in Literature">1978</a>: <a href="/wiki/Isaac_Bashevis_Singer" title="Isaac Bashevis Singer">Isaac Bashevis Singer</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1979_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1979 Nobel Prize in Literature">1979</a>: <a href="/wiki/Odysseas_Elytis" title="Odysseas Elytis">Odysseas Elytis</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1980_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1980 Nobel Prize in Literature">1980</a>: <a href="/wiki/Czes%C5%82aw_Mi%C5%82osz" title="Czesław Miłosz">Czesław Miłosz</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1981–2000</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1981_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1981 Nobel Prize in Literature">1981</a>: <a href="/wiki/Elias_Canetti" title="Elias Canetti">Elias Canetti</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1982_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1982 Nobel Prize in Literature">1982</a>: <a href="/wiki/Gabriel_Garc%C3%ADa_M%C3%A1rquez" title="Gabriel García Márquez">Gabriel García Márquez</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1983_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1983 Nobel Prize in Literature">1983</a>: <a href="/wiki/William_Golding" title="William Golding">William Golding</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1984_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1984 Nobel Prize in Literature">1984</a>: <a href="/wiki/Jaroslav_Seifert" title="Jaroslav Seifert">Jaroslav Seifert</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1985_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1985 Nobel Prize in Literature">1985</a>: <a href="/wiki/Claude_Simon" title="Claude Simon">Claude Simon</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1986_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1986 Nobel Prize in Literature">1986</a>: <a href="/wiki/Wole_Soyinka" title="Wole Soyinka">Wole Soyinka</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1987_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1987 Nobel Prize in Literature">1987</a>: <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Brodsky" title="Joseph Brodsky">Joseph Brodsky</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1988_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1988 Nobel Prize in Literature">1988</a>: <a href="/wiki/Naguib_Mahfouz" title="Naguib Mahfouz">Naguib Mahfouz</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1989_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1989 Nobel Prize in Literature">1989</a>: <a href="/wiki/Camilo_Jos%C3%A9_Cela" title="Camilo José Cela">Camilo José Cela</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1990_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1990 Nobel Prize in Literature">1990</a>: <a href="/wiki/Octavio_Paz" title="Octavio Paz">Octavio Paz</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1991_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1991 Nobel Prize in Literature">1991</a>: <a href="/wiki/Nadine_Gordimer" title="Nadine Gordimer">Nadine Gordimer</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1992_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1992 Nobel Prize in Literature">1992</a>: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Derek Walcott</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1993_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1993 Nobel Prize in Literature">1993</a>: <a href="/wiki/Toni_Morrison" title="Toni Morrison">Toni Morrison</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1994_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1994 Nobel Prize in Literature">1994</a>: <a href="/wiki/Kenzabur%C5%8D_%C5%8Ce" title="Kenzaburō Ōe">Kenzaburō Ōe</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1995_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1995 Nobel Prize in Literature">1995</a>: <a href="/wiki/Seamus_Heaney" title="Seamus Heaney">Seamus Heaney</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1996_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1996 Nobel Prize in Literature">1996</a>: <a href="/wiki/Wis%C5%82awa_Szymborska" title="Wisława Szymborska">Wisława Szymborska</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1997_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1997 Nobel Prize in Literature">1997</a>: <a href="/wiki/Dario_Fo" title="Dario Fo">Dario Fo</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1998_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1998 Nobel Prize in Literature">1998</a>: <a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Saramago" title="José Saramago">José Saramago</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1999_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1999 Nobel Prize in Literature">1999</a>: <a href="/wiki/G%C3%BCnter_Grass" title="Günter Grass">Günter Grass</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2000_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="2000 Nobel Prize in Literature">2000</a>: <a href="/wiki/Gao_Xingjian" title="Gao Xingjian">Gao Xingjian</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2001–2020</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2001_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="2001 Nobel Prize in Literature">2001</a>: <a href="/wiki/V._S._Naipaul" title="V. S. Naipaul">V. S. Naipaul</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2002_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="2002 Nobel Prize in Literature">2002</a>: <a href="/wiki/Imre_Kert%C3%A9sz" title="Imre Kertész">Imre Kertész</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2003_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="2003 Nobel Prize in Literature">2003</a>: <a href="/wiki/J._M._Coetzee" title="J. M. Coetzee">J. M. Coetzee</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2004_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="2004 Nobel Prize in Literature">2004</a>: <a href="/wiki/Elfriede_Jelinek" title="Elfriede Jelinek">Elfriede Jelinek</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2005_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="2005 Nobel Prize in Literature">2005</a>: <a href="/wiki/Harold_Pinter" title="Harold Pinter">Harold Pinter</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2006_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="2006 Nobel Prize in Literature">2006</a>: <a href="/wiki/Orhan_Pamuk" title="Orhan Pamuk">Orhan Pamuk</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2007_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="2007 Nobel Prize in Literature">2007</a>: <a href="/wiki/Doris_Lessing" title="Doris Lessing">Doris Lessing</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2008_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="2008 Nobel Prize in Literature">2008</a>: <a href="/wiki/J._M._G._Le_Cl%C3%A9zio" title="J. M. G. Le Clézio">J. M. G. Le Clézio</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2009_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="2009 Nobel Prize in Literature">2009</a>: <a href="/wiki/Herta_M%C3%BCller" title="Herta Müller">Herta Müller</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2010_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="2010 Nobel Prize in Literature">2010</a>: <a href="/wiki/Mario_Vargas_Llosa" title="Mario Vargas Llosa">Mario Vargas Llosa</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2011_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="2011 Nobel Prize in Literature">2011</a>: <a href="/wiki/Tomas_Transtr%C3%B6mer" title="Tomas Tranströmer">Tomas Tranströmer</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2012_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="2012 Nobel Prize in Literature">2012</a>: <a href="/wiki/Mo_Yan" title="Mo Yan">Mo Yan</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2013_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="2013 Nobel Prize in Literature">2013</a>: <a href="/wiki/Alice_Munro" title="Alice Munro">Alice Munro</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2014_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="2014 Nobel Prize in Literature">2014</a>: <a href="/wiki/Patrick_Modiano" title="Patrick Modiano">Patrick Modiano</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2015_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="2015 Nobel Prize in Literature">2015</a>: <a href="/wiki/Svetlana_Alexievich" title="Svetlana Alexievich">Svetlana Alexievich</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2016_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="2016 Nobel Prize in Literature">2016</a>: <a href="/wiki/Bob_Dylan" title="Bob Dylan">Bob Dylan</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2017_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="2017 Nobel Prize in Literature">2017</a>: <a href="/wiki/Kazuo_Ishiguro" title="Kazuo Ishiguro">Kazuo Ishiguro</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2018_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="2018 Nobel Prize in Literature">2018</a>: <a href="/wiki/Olga_Tokarczuk" title="Olga Tokarczuk">Olga Tokarczuk</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2019_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="2019 Nobel Prize in Literature">2019</a>: <a href="/wiki/Peter_Handke" title="Peter Handke">Peter Handke</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2020_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="2020 Nobel Prize in Literature">2020</a>: <a href="/wiki/Louise_Gl%C3%BCck" title="Louise Glück">Louise Glück</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2021–present</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2021_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="2021 Nobel Prize in Literature">2021</a>: <a href="/wiki/Abdulrazak_Gurnah" title="Abdulrazak Gurnah">Abdulrazak Gurnah</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2022_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="2022 Nobel Prize in Literature">2022</a>: <a href="/wiki/Annie_Ernaux" title="Annie Ernaux">Annie Ernaux</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2023_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="2023 Nobel Prize in Literature">2023</a>: <a href="/wiki/Jon_Fosse" title="Jon Fosse">Jon Fosse</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2024_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="2024 Nobel Prize in Literature">2024</a>: <a href="/wiki/Han_Kang" title="Han Kang">Han Kang</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2025_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="2025 Nobel Prize in Literature">2025</a>: <i>to be determined</i></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output 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Marcus</a> (United States/Canada)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="Nobel Prize in Literature">Literature</a> (<a href="/wiki/1992_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="1992 Nobel Prize in Literature">1992</a>)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Derek Walcott</a> (Saint Lucia)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize" title="Nobel Peace Prize">Peace</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Rigoberta_Mench%C3%BA" title="Rigoberta Menchú">Rigoberta Menchú</a> (Guatemala)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Physics" title="Nobel Prize in Physics">Physics</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Georges_Charpak" title="Georges Charpak">Georges Charpak</a> (France/Poland)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Physiology_or_Medicine" title="Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine">Physiology or Medicine</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edmond_H._Fischer" title="Edmond H. 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href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States"><img alt="United States" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></a></span></span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2015: <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Lucien" title="Vladimir Lucien">Vladimir Lucien</a> <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Saint_Lucia" title="Saint Lucia"><img alt="Saint Lucia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Flag_of_Saint_Lucia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Saint_Lucia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Flag_of_Saint_Lucia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Saint_Lucia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Flag_of_Saint_Lucia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Saint_Lucia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2016: <a href="/wiki/Olive_Senior" title="Olive Senior">Olive Senior</a> <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Jamaica" title="Jamaica"><img alt="Jamaica" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Flag_of_Jamaica.svg/23px-Flag_of_Jamaica.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Flag_of_Jamaica.svg/35px-Flag_of_Jamaica.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Flag_of_Jamaica.svg/46px-Flag_of_Jamaica.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2017: <a href="/wiki/Kei_Miller" title="Kei Miller">Kei Miller</a> <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Jamaica" title="Jamaica"><img alt="Jamaica" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Flag_of_Jamaica.svg/23px-Flag_of_Jamaica.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Flag_of_Jamaica.svg/35px-Flag_of_Jamaica.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Flag_of_Jamaica.svg/46px-Flag_of_Jamaica.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2018: <a href="/wiki/Jennifer_Rahim" title="Jennifer Rahim">Jennifer Rahim</a> <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Trinidad_and_Tobago" title="Trinidad and Tobago"><img alt="Trinidad and Tobago" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Flag_of_Trinidad_and_Tobago.svg/23px-Flag_of_Trinidad_and_Tobago.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Flag_of_Trinidad_and_Tobago.svg/35px-Flag_of_Trinidad_and_Tobago.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Flag_of_Trinidad_and_Tobago.svg/46px-Flag_of_Trinidad_and_Tobago.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="480" /></a></span></span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2019: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Kevin_Adonis_Browne&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kevin Adonis Browne (page does not exist)">Kevin Adonis Browne</a> <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Trinidad_and_Tobago" title="Trinidad and Tobago"><img alt="Trinidad and Tobago" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Flag_of_Trinidad_and_Tobago.svg/23px-Flag_of_Trinidad_and_Tobago.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Flag_of_Trinidad_and_Tobago.svg/35px-Flag_of_Trinidad_and_Tobago.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Flag_of_Trinidad_and_Tobago.svg/46px-Flag_of_Trinidad_and_Tobago.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="480" /></a></span></span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2020: <a href="/wiki/Richard_Georges" title="Richard Georges">Richard Georges</a> <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Trinidad_and_Tobago" title="Trinidad and Tobago"><img alt="Trinidad and Tobago" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Flag_of_Trinidad_and_Tobago.svg/23px-Flag_of_Trinidad_and_Tobago.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" 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