Derek Walcott

Sir Derek Alton Walcott   OM  (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la silimiin goli January biɛɣ'pishi ni ata dali yuuni 1930 ka daa kpi silimiin goli March biɛɣ'pinaayopɔin dali yuuni 2017)daa Saint Lucian nucheeni baŋda. 

O daa deegi yuuni 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. O tumanima shɛŋa nyɛ  Homeric epic poem Omeros (1990) ka pirigi li nyɛ ban galim li dama lala tuma ŋɔ nyɛla din jandi Walcott's kpaŋmaŋ. Din pahi nyɛ Nobel Prize, Walcott nyɛla ŋun deegi pina pam kamani Obie Award yuuni 1971, Dream on Monkey Mountain,  MacArthur Foundation "genius" pini,  Royal Society of Literature pini,  Queen's Medal for Poetry,  OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature,"Derek Walcott wins OCM Bocas Prize" , Trinidad Express Newspapers, 30 April 2011. Yuuni 2010 T. S. Eliot Prize zaŋ n-ti  poetry White EgretsCharlotte Higgins, "TS Eliot prize goes to Derek Walcott for 'moving and technically flawless' work".  The Guardian, 24 January 2011. n-ti pahi Griffin Trust For Excellence in Poetry Lifetime Recognition Award yuuni 2015.

Tuma 
Din daa niŋ ka o naai shikuru, Walcott nyɛla ŋun daa labi Trinidad yuuni 1953, ni ka o daa leei "critic", karimba n-ti pahi lahabalitira. Ŋun daa piligi Trinidad Theatre Workshop yuuni 1959.

Kpibu
Walcott nyɛla ŋun daa kpi Cap Estate, St. Lucia, silimiin goli March biɛɣ'pinaayopɔin dali yuuni 2017. O daa kpi la o yuun pihinii ni ayopɔin saha. O nyɛla ninvuɣ so bɛ ni daa suɣi bɛ ni suɣiri tiŋgbani maa luɣ'shɛli Asibiri dabisili siimiin goli March biɛɣ'pishi ni anu dali ka bɛ daa niŋ o kuli ŋɔ Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Castries."World bids farewell to Derek Walcott", Jamaica Observer, 25 March 2017."Derek Walcott laid to rest" , St. Lucia Times, 27 March 2017.

Awards and honours
 1969: Cholmondeley Award
 1971: Obie Award for Best Foreign Play (for Dream on Monkey Mountain)
 1972: Officer of the Order of the British Empire
 1981: MacArthur Foundation Fellowship ("genius award")
 1988: Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
 1990: Arts Council of Wales International Writers Prize
 1990: W. H. Smith Literary Award (for poetry Omeros)
 1992: Nobel Prize in Literature
 2004: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Lifetime Achievement"Derek Walcott, 2004 – Lifetime Achievement" , Winners – Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.
 2008: Honorary doctorate from the University of Essex
 2011: T. S. Eliot Prize (for poetry collection White Egrets)
 2011: OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature (for White Egrets)
 2015: Griffin Trust For Excellence in Poetry Lifetime Recognition Award
 2016: Knight Commander of the Order of Saint Lucia

List of works


Poetry collections

 1948: 25 Poems
 1949: Epitaph for the Young: Xll Cantos
 1951: Poems
 1962: In a Green Night: Poems 1948—60
 1964: Selected Poems
 1965: The Castaway and Other Poems
 1969: The Gulf and Other Poems
 1973: Another Life
 1976: Sea Grapes
 1979: The Star-Apple Kingdom
 1981: Selected Poetry
 1981: The Fortunate Traveller
 1983: The Caribbean Poetry of Derek Walcott and the Art of Romare Bearden
 1984: Midsummer
 1986: Collected Poems, 1948–1984, featuring "Love After Love"
 1987: The Arkansas Testament
 1990: Omeros
 1997: The Bounty
 2000: Tiepolo's Hound, includes Walcott's watercolors
 2004: The Prodigal
 2007: Selected Poems (edited, selected, and with an introduction by Edward Baugh)
 2010: White Egrets
 2014: The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948–2013
 2016: Morning, Paramin (illustrated by Peter Doig)

Plays

 1950: Henri Christophe: A Chronicle in Seven Scenes
 1952: Harry Dernier: A Play for Radio Production
 1953: Wine of the Country
 1954: The Sea at Dauphin: A Play in One Act
 1957: Ione
 1958: Drums and Colours: An Epic Drama
 1958: Ti-Jean and His Brothers
 1966: Malcochon: or, Six in the Rain
 1967: Dream on Monkey Mountain
 1970: In a Fine Castle
 1974: The Joker of Seville
 1974: The Charlatan
 1976: O Babylon!
 1977: Remembrance
 1978: Pantomime
 1980: The Joker of Seville and O Babylon!: Two Plays
 1982: The Isle Is Full of Noises
 1984: The Haitian Earth
 1986: Three Plays: The Last Carnival, Beef, No Chicken, and A Branch of the Blue Nile
 1991: Steel
 1993: Odyssey: A Stage Version
 1997: The Capeman (book and lyrics, both in collaboration with Paul Simon)
 2002: Walker and The Ghost Dance
 2011: Moon-Child
 2014: O Starry Starry Night

Other books
 1990: The Poet in the Theatre, Poetry Book Society (London)
 1993: The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
 1996: Conversations with Derek Walcott, (Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi)
 1996: (With Joseph Brodsky and Seamus Heaney) Homage to Robert Frost (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
 1998: What the Twilight Says (essays), (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
 2002: Walker and Ghost Dance (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
 2004: Another Life: Fully Annotated, Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers

Lihimi m-pahi
Black Nobel Prize laureates
 "Love After Love", a poem by Derek Walcott
 Omeros, epic poetry by Derek Walcott
 Caribbean Epic

Kundivihira

Further reading
 Abani, Chris. The myth of fingerprints: Signifying as displacement in Derek Walcott's "Omeros". University of Southern California, PhD dissertation. 2006.
 Abodunrin, Femi. "The Muse of History: Derek Walcott and the Topos of {Un} naming in West Indian Writing". Journal of West Indian Literature 7, no. 1 (1996): 54–77.
 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.
 Baer, William, ed. Conversations with Derek Walcott. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1996.
 Baugh, Edward, Derek Walcott. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
 Breslin, Paul, Nobody's Nation: Reading Derek Walcott. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. 
 Brown, Stewart, ed., The Art of Derek Walcott. Chester Springs, PA.: Dufour, 1991; Bridgend: Seren Books, 1992.
 Burnett, Paula, Derek Walcott: Politics and Poetics. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001.
 Figueroa, John J. "Some subtleties of the isle: A commentary on certain aspects of Derek Walcott's sonnet sequence. Tales of the Islands. (1976): 190–228.
 Fumagalli, Maria Cristina, The Flight of the Vernacular: Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott and the Impress of Dante. Amsterdam-New York: Rodopi, 2001.
 Fumagalli, Maria Cristina, Agenda 39:1–3 (2002–03), Special Issue on Derek Walcott. Includes Derek Walcott's "Epitaph for the Young" (1949), republished here in its entirety.
 Goddard, Horace I. "Untangling the thematic threads: Derek Walcott's poetry." Kola 21, no. 1 (2009): 120–131.
 Goddard, Horace I. "The Rediscovery of Ancestral Experience in Derek Walcott's Early Poetry." Kola 29, no. 2 (2017): 24–40.
 Hamner, Robert D., Derek Walcott. Updated edition. Twayne's World Authors Series. TWAS 600. New York: Twayne, 1993.
 Izevbaye, D. S. "The Exile and the Prodigal: Derek Walcott as West Indian Poet." Caribbean Quarterly 26, no. 1–2 (1980): 70–82.
 King, Bruce, Derek Walcott and West Indian Drama: "Not Only a Playwright But a Company": The Trinidad Theatre Workshop 1959–1993. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995.
 King, Bruce, Derek Walcott, A Caribbean Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
 Marks, Susan Jane. That terrible vowel, that I: autobiography and Derek Walcott's Another life. Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1989.



 Sinnewe, Dirk :Divided to the Vein? Derek Walcott‘s drama and the formation of cultural Identities.   Königshausen u. Neumann, Dec. 2001.
 Terada, Rei, Derek Walcott's Poetry: American Mimicry. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1992.
 Thieme, John, Derek Walcott. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999.

External links


 British Council writers' profile, works listing, critical review
 Profile, poems written and audio at Poetry Archive 
 Profile and poems at Poetry Foundation
 Profile, poems audio and written, Poetry of American Poets
 Profile and analysis , Emory University
 Profile, interviews, articles, archive. Prague Writers' Festival
 Edward Hirsch, "Derek Walcott, The Art of Poetry No. 37", The Paris Review, Winter 1986
 Lannan Foundation Reading and Conversation With Glyn Maxwell. November 2002 (audio).
 Biography available in Saint Lucians and the Order of CARICOM

 Appearance on Desert Island Discs, BBC Radio 4, 9 June 1991


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