Derek Walcott (1930–2017)
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Derek Alton Walcott was born in Castries, St. Lucia on January 23, 1930. He received a bachelor's degree in French, Latin, and Spanish at the University of the West Indies in 1953. He also began writing plays. His first play, about the revolutionary Haitian leader Henri Christophe, was produced in visa mer St. Lucia in 1950. He taught at schools in St. Lucia, Grenada and Jamaica while continuing to write and stage plays. His plays included Lone, Sea at Dauphin, Ti-Jean and His Brothers, Malcochon, and Dream on Monkey Mountain. He later wrote the book and collaborated with the singer and songwriter Paul Simon on the lyrics for The Capeman, a musical about a Puerto Rican gang member who murdered three people in Manhattan in 1959. He was a professor at Boston University from 1981 until retiring in 2007. His metaphorical poetry captured the physical beauty of the Caribbean, the harsh legacy of colonialism, and the complexities of living and writing in two cultural worlds His collections of poetry included In a Green Night, Selected Poems, The Castaway, The Gulf, Sea Grapes, Another Life, Omeros, Tiepolo's Hound, and The Prodigal. He received the Queens Medal for Poetry, the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992, and the T. S. Eliot Prize for his poetry collection, White Egrets, in 2011. He died on March 17, 2017 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Verk av Derek Walcott
The Haitian Trilogy: Plays: Henri Christophe, Drums and Colours, and The Haytian Earth (2002) 25 exemplar
Nelle vene del mare 4 exemplar
Nobel 1992. Mappa del nuovo mondo. Ti-Jean e i suoi fratelli. Sogno sul monte delle scimmie. (1999) 2 exemplar
Pantomime 2 exemplar
Latin American writers at work 1 exemplar
Uman: I Want Everything 1 exemplar
Poem (in Granta 109 - FREEMAN) 1 exemplar
Epitaph For The Young: XII Cantos 1 exemplar
Poemas 1 exemplar
Salsa 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Bidragsgivare, vissa utgåvor — 921 exemplar
A World of Ideas : Conversations With Thoughtful Men and Women About American Life Today and the Ideas Shaping Our… (1989) — Interviewee — 549 exemplar
World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (1998) — Bidragsgivare — 448 exemplar
Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep: An Anthology of Poetry by African Americans Since 1945 (1994) — Bidragsgivare — 89 exemplar
So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival (2010) — Bidragsgivare — 24 exemplar
Another English: Anglophone Poems from Around the World (Poets in the World) (2014) — Bidragsgivare — 10 exemplar
Antaeus No. 37, Spring 1980 - On the Poetry of Stanley Kunitz — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
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- Vedertaget namn
- Walcott, Derek
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Walcott, Derek Alcott
- Födelsedag
- 1930-01-23
- Avled
- 2017-03-17
- Begravningsplats
- Morne Fortuné, Saint Lucia
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- Santa Lucia
- Födelseort
- Castries, Santa Lucia
- Dödsort
- Gros Islet, St. Lucia
- Bostadsorter
- Castries, Saint Lucia (birth)
Grenada
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
New York, New York, USA - Utbildning
- St. Mary's College, Castries, St. Lucia
University College of the West Indies (BA|1953) - Yrken
- teacher
poet
playwright - Relationer
- Walcott, Roderick (twin brother)
- Organisationer
- Boston University
University of Alberta
University of Essex
Boston Playwrights' Theater
Trinidad Theater Workshop - Priser och utmärkelser
- Nobel Prize (Literature, 1992)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary ∙ Literature ∙ 1979)
Obie Award (1971)
Queen's Medal for Poetry (1988)
Royal Society of Literature Award
MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (1981) (visa alla 19)
Knight Commander of the Order of Saint Lucia (2016)
Officer, Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (1972)
Order of Merit (2009)
Order of the Caribbean Community (1992)
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (2004)
T. S. Eliot Prize (2011)
OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature (2011)
Cholmondeley Award (1969)
Arts Council of Wales International Writers Prize (1990)
W. H. Smith Literary Award (1990)
Griffin Trust For Excellence in Poetry (2015)
Guinness Award for Poetry
Pegasus Award for Poetry - Särskiljningsnotis
- VIAF:39391959
Medlemmar
Diskussioner
David Walcott i Fine Press Forum (februari 2023)
Recensioner
Queen and Country was created by Steve McQueen in response to his 2003 commission by the Imperial War Museum's Art Commissions Committee to create a work in response to the war in Iraq. Inspired by the dedication and selflessness of the servicemen and women he met in Basra in 2003, McQueen devised the concept that each of the soldiers killed in the conflict be commemorated on official postage stamps. Using images selected by the families of the deceased, full sheets of stamps, one per soldier with their name and date of death, are displayed in vertical sliding drawers contained in an oak cabinet. Neither for nor against the war, Queen and Country, McQueen's dignified and moving response to his commission as war artist, is a work of personal tribute and commemoration. This commemorative book featuring 160 service men and women has been published on the occasion of the display of the work at the National Portrait Gallery, London, 20 March - 18 July 2010.… (mer)
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"...when the sunrise brightens the river's memory."
Parallels with Homer's Iliad can be hard to find in St. Lucia and Africa.
So good that Ma of the No Pain Cafe finally searches out The Cure that we all might like to find!
Helen and Achille, Helen and Hector, Helen and Major Plunket...? And Hector's baby...?
We understand the characters and travels of Achille, Seven Seas, and Philoctete, yet so little about Helen or Hector.
The author as a main character delivered an unusual turn to the plot of rescues and hallucination.
I felt a connection with St. Lucia, yet little with Achille, Hector, or Helen.
And why did Maud bend to Helen's whims?
OMEROS = mysterious, mystical, inscrutable, cyclical, "con-fu-sion," and yes, inspiring.… (mer)