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Walcott, Derek Alton
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Walcott, Derek Alton (1930– ), poet and playwright, born in St Lucia. His plays include
Dream on Monkey Mountain (1967, pub. 1971),
The Joker of Seville (1974, pub. 1978; based on Tirso da Molina's
El Burlador de Sevilla),
O Babylon! (1976, pub. 1978; set amongst a Rastafarian community in Kingston, Jamaica), and
Viva Detroit (1992). His collections of poetry include
In a Green Night: Poems 1948–60 (1962),
The Castaway and other poems (1965),
Sea Grapes (1976),
The Fortunate Traveller (1982),
The Arkansas Testament (1987), and
Omeros (1989), his epic Caribbean Odyssey.
Tiepolo's Hound was published in 2000. Both plays and poetry show a preoccupation with the national identity of the West Indies and their literature, and with the conflict between the heritage of European and West Indian culture. He was awarded the
Nobel Prize for literature in 1992.
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Derek Walcott la voz del Caribe: el premio Nobel de Santa Lucia analiza la gestación de una identidad regional a través de la singular poesía y prosa de las islas.
Magazine article from: Américas (Spanish Edition); 5/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; El poeta y dramaturgo Derek Walcott, que recibi el premio Nobel en...sensibilidad, belleza e ingenio. Derek Walcott naci en 1930 en Santa Luca, que...Atlntico>>. Para Derek Walcott llamar a Omeros un poema pico...
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Derek Walcott: A Caribbean Life.
Magazine article from: African American Review; 6/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; Bruce King. Derek Walcott: A Caribbean Life. Oxford...95. In Another Life Derek Walcott wrote, "I had entered...in Bruce King's tome Derek Wakott: A Caribbean Life...according to places where Walcott spent the majority of time...
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Derek Walcott: A Life in Poetry
Transcript from: NPR Weekend All Things Considered; 3/18/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Considered (NPR) 03-18-2007 Derek Walcott: A Life in Poetry Host: JACKI...NPR News. I'm Jacki Lyden. Derek Walcott has spent a lifetime imbibing...odyssey called "Omeros." Mr. DEREK WALCOTT (Poet): I sang the only slaughter...
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Conversations with Derek Walcott.(Review)
Magazine article from: African American Review; 12/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Baer, ed. Conversations with Derek Walcott. Jackson: UP of Mississippi...to emerge from the Caribbean, Derek Walcott's literary, social, and political...will find in Conversations with Derek Walcott, however, is an impressively...
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Derek Walcott: A Caribbean Life. (St. Lucia).(Review)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 3/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; Bruce King Derek Walcott: A Caribbean Life Oxford, England. Oxford University Press 2000...has written an exhaustively researched biography of Nobel laureate Derek Walcott. While King touches on some private areas of his subject's life...
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Derek Walcott: Politics and Poetics. (St. Lucia).
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 6/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; Paula Burnett Derek Walcott: Politics and Poetics Gainesville. University Press of Florida 2000. xiii + 380 pages. $55 ISBN 0-8130-1882-X IN HER STUDY of Derek Walcott, Paula Burnett reads his poetry and plays for their political content...
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Derek Walcott: A Caribbean Life.(Book review)
Magazine article from: ARIEL; 4/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Bruce King. Derek Walcott: A Caribbean Life. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000. Pp ix, 714...Nobel Prize winning poet, playwright, journalist, and painter Derek Walcott is subtitled with the indefinite article "a." It is appropriate...
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Nobody's Nation: Reading Derek Walcott.(Derek Walcott: Politics and Poetics)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; Nobody's Nation: Reading Derek Walcott. By PAUL BRESLIN. Chicago and...pbk 0-226-07427-7). Derek Walcott: Politics and Poetics. By PAULA...introductions and close readings of Derek Walcott's poetry, as career and vocation...
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Derek Walcott: A Caribbean Life.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: ARIEL; 4/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; Bruce King. Derek Walcott: A Caribbean Life. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000. Pp ix, 714...Nobel prize winning poet, playwright, journalist, and painter Derek Walcott is appropriately subtitled with the indefinite article "a." It...
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Derek Walcott: The Voice of the Caribbean
Magazine article from: Americas; 5/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...the islands Poet and playwright Derek Walcott received the Nobel Prize for Literature...sensitivity, beauty, and ingenuity. Derek Walcott was born in 1930 in Saint Lucia...identity beyond the Atlantic." But Derek Walcott thinks it sounds "too pompous...
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Walcott, Derek 1930–
Book article from: Contemporary Black Biography
Derek Walcott 1930 – Poet, playwright At a Glance … Caribbean poet Derek Walcott is the recipient of the 1992 Nobel Prize...Indies in general. In the 1981 biography Derek Walcott, Robert D. Hamner wrote: “...
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Derek Walcott
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Derek Walcott 1930-, West Indian dramatist and poet...also book-length narrative poems. Walcott is also a skilled realist painter, whose...2000); W. Baer, Conversations with Derek Walcott (1996); studies by N. Thomas (1980...
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Derek Alton Walcott
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Derek Alton Walcott Nobel Prize winning poet and dramatist from the West Indies, Derek Alton Walcott (born 1930) used a synthesis of...cultural heritage of his homeland. Derek Alton Walcott was born in Casties, St. Lucia...
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Walcott, Derek
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Walcott, Derek (1930– ) Caribbean poet and playwright. His numerous plays include Henri Christophe (1950), Drums and...
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Walcott, Derek Alton
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Walcott, Derek Alton (1930– ), poet and playwright, born in St Lucia. His plays include Dream on Monkey Mountain...
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