Derek Walcott

Sir Derek Alton Walcott, KCSL, OBE, OCC (23 Januari 1930 - 17 Mac 2017) ialah seorang penyair dan penulis drama Saint Lucian. Beliau menerima Hadiah Nobel dalam Sastera 1992. Beliau ialah ulama terkemuka di Universiti Alberta di kediaman, di mana beliau mengajar kursus penulisan sarjana dan lepasan. Beliau juga berkhidmat sebagai Profesor Puisi di Universiti Essex dari tahun 2010 hingga 2013. Karya-karyanya termasuk puisi Homeric epic Omeros (1990), yang banyak pengkritik melihat "sebagai pencapaian utama Walcott." Selain memenangi Hadiah Nobel, Walcott menerima banyak penghargaan sastera sepanjang kariernya, termasuk Anugerah Obie pada tahun 1971 untuk memainkannya di Dream on Monkey Mountain, anugerah "genius" MacArthur Foundation, Royal Society of Literature Award Pingat Queen of Poetry, Hadiah OCM Bocas untuk Kesusasteraan Caribbean, Hadiah TS Eliot 2011 untuk buku puisi White Egrets dan Griffin Trust For Excellence dalam Penghargaan Pengiktirafan Sepanjang Hayat Puisi pada tahun 2015.

Rujukan

Bacaan lanjut
 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.
 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.
 Hamner, Robert D., Derek Walcott. Updated Edition. Twayne's World Authors Series. TWAS 600. New York: Twayne, 1993.
 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.
 
 
 Terada, Rei, Derek Walcott's Poetry: American Mimicry. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1992.
 Thieme, John, Derek Walcott. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999.

Pautan luar

 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

Fellow Guggenheim
Penerima Hadiah Nobel dalam Kesusasteraan
Kematian 2017
Kelahiran 1930