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, Yuuni 2010 T.&nbsp;S. Eliot Prize zaŋ n-ti  poetry *White Egrets* 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.

## 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
* 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
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### 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.
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* 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
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* Appearance on ''Desert Island Discs'', BBC Radio 4, 9 June 1991
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