In addition to having won the Nobel , Walcott has won many literary awards over the course of his career , including an Obie Award in 1971 for his play `` Dream on Monkey Mountain '' , a MacArthur Foundation `` genius '' award , a Royal Society of Literature Award , the Queen 's Medal for Poetry , the inaugural OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature and the 2011 T. S. Eliot Prize for his book of poetry `` White Egrets '' .
In besides to having won the Nobel , Walcott has won many literary awards over the course of his career including an Obie Award in 1971 for his play `` Dream on Monkey Mountain '' , a MacArthur Foundation `` genius '' award , a Royal Society of Literature Award , the Queen 's Medal for Poetry , and the 2011 T. S. Eliot Prize for his book of poetry , `` White Egrets '' .