1. Derek Walcott - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Derek Alton Walcott (born January 23, 1930) is a WestIndian poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who writes mainly in English. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott

Derek Walcott From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Derek Walcott Born January 23 Castries Saint Lucia Occupation ... Playwright Derek Alton Walcott (born January 23 ) is a West-Indian poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who writes mainly in English . Born in Castries St. Lucia , he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in His work, which developed independently of the schools of magic realism emerging in both South America and Europe at around the time of his birth, is intensely related to the symbolism of myth and its relationship to culture . He is best known for his epic poem Omeros , a reworking of Homeric story and tradition into a journey around the Caribbean and beyond to the American West and London. Walcott founded the Trinidad Theatre Workshop in 1959, which has produced his plays (and others) since that time, and remains active with its Board of Directors. He also founded Boston Playwrights' Theatre at Boston University in 1981 with the hope of creating a home for new plays in Boston, Massachusetts . Walcott continues to teach poetry and drama in the Creative Writing Department at Boston University and gives readings and lectures throughout the world. He divides his time between his home in the Caribbean and New York City.

2. Derek Walcott - Poems, Biography, Quotes Free collection of all Derek Walcott Poems and Biography. See the best poems and poetry by Derek Walcott. http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/derek_walcott

Famous Poets and Poems: Home Poets Poem of the Month Poet of the Month ... Love Poems Search for: Poets Poems FamousPoetsAndPoems.com Poets / Derek Walcott Biography Poems Quotes Books ... Post Your Poems Popular Poets Langston Hughes Shel Silverstein Pablo Neruda Maya Angelou ... All Poets See also: Love Poems and Quotes Poets by Nationality African American Poets Women Poets ... Meaning of Names Derek Walcott (1930 - present) Enlarge Picture View Derek Walcott: Poems Quotes Biography Books Derek Walcott was born in 1930 in the town of Castries in Saint Lucia, one of the Windward Islands in the Lesser Antilles. The experience of growing up on the isolated volcanic island, an ex-British colony, has had a strong influence on Walcott's life and work. Both his grandmothers were said to have been the descendants of slaves. His father, a Bohemian watercolourist, died when Derek and his twin brother, Roderick, were only a few years old. His mother ran the town's Methodist school. After st.. Continue.. Some of Derek Walcott Poems Love After Love A Far Cry From Africa The Schooner 'Flight' A City's Death By Fire ... View all Derek Walcott Poems Quote from Author Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.

3. Derek Walcott Derek Walcott at www.contemporarywriters.com Derek Walcott won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992. He has written many plays for stage and radio, http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=authC2D9C28A0a4dc1BE88LsX2F7F9A1

4. New York State Writers Institute - Derek Walcott Derek Walcott, poet and playwright, was the winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize for Literature. He was born in the West Indian island of St. Lucia, and known for http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/walcott.html

Derek Walcott Channel 17 Sunday at 2:00 p.m. September 17, 2000 Photo Credit: Nancy Crampton Derek Walcott , poet and playwright, was the winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize for Literature. He was born in the West Indian island of St. Lucia, and known for his body of work that blends Caribbean, English, and African traditions. In awarding him the Nobel Prize in 1992, the academy praised him for "a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural achievement." In a Green Night Another Life The Star-Apple Kingdom Collected Poems, 1948-1984 The Arkansas Testament (1987), and Omeros (1990). Richard Wilbur, former poet laureate of the United States, has called Walcott, "one of the best poets writing in English." Dream on Monkey Mountain Ti-Jean and His Brothers The Last Carnival , and The Odyssey: A Stage Version (1993). He also wrote the story and the lyrics for Paul Simon's musical The Capeman which opened on Broadway January 28, 1998. Derek Walcott visited the NYS Writers Institute on October 8, 1998 In conjunction with the University Art Museum's exhibit Island Light: Recent Watercolors October 2 - November 15, 1998

5. Derek Walcott Derek Walcott (1930 ). Biographical Information. Main Works. Featured Work Omeros. Selected Quotations. Links. Biographical Information http://fajardo-acosta.com/worldlit/walcott/index.htm

Dr. Fidel Fajardo-Acosta's World Literature Website HOME INDEX CONTACT INFO HOME ... CREDITS Derek Walcott (1930- ) Biographical Information Main Works Featured Work: Omeros ... Links Biographical Information Caribbean poet, playwright, and art critic, awarded the Nobel Prize in 1992. Walcott's writings deal with the Caribbean encounter, convergence and conflict of different races, cultures, languages and traditions, including African, British, and French. His work attempts to bring together and explore the continuities and ruptures between past and present, the classical and the postcolonial, the Western and the non-Western. Born in 1930 in Castries, St. Lucia. St. Lucia is Caribbean island of the West Indies, Lesser Antilles group, formerly a British possession. It is located about 25 miles south of Martinique and 20 miles north of St. Vincent, about 250 miles north of the coast of Venezuela Mixed-race background, father a painter and poet of Caribbean, British and Dutch ancestry, mother a Methodist teacher native of the West Indies ( Studied at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica Founded the Trinidad Theater Workshop (1959) Studied theatre in the United States under a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship MacArthur Foundation Genius Award (1981) Alternated living in Trinidad and in Boston, Massachusetts, teaching at Harvard and Boston University

6. Writers Of The Caribbean - Derek Walcott Derek Walcott was born in 1930 in the town of Castries in Saint Lucia, one of the Windward Islands in the Lesser Antilles. The experience of growing up on http://core.ecu.edu/engl/deenas/caribbean/walcott.htm

Derek Walcott Saint Lucia Biography Works Links Home Biography Works Verse 25 Poems , Port-of-Spain: Guardian Commercial Printery, 1948 Epitaph for the Young , Xll Cantos, Bridgetown: Barbados Advocate, 1949 Poems, Kingston, Jamaica, City Printery, 1951 In a Green Night, Poems 1948 - 60 , London: Cape, 1962 Selected Poems, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1964 The Castaway and Other Poems , London: Cape, 1965 The Gulf and Other Poems , London: Cape, 1969 Another Life , New York: Farrar Straus Giroux: London: Cape, 1973 Sea Grapes , London: Cape; New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1976 The Star-Apple Kingdom , New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1979 Selected Poetry , Ed. by Wayne Brown. London: Heinemann, 1981 The Fortunate Traveller , New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1981 The Caribbean Poetry of Derek Walcott, and the Art of Romare Bearden , New York: Limited Editions Club, 1983 Midsummer , New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1984 Collected Poems 1948-1984 , New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1986 The Arkansas Testament , New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1987 Omeros , New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1990 Drama Harry Dernier, Bridgetown: Barbados Advocate, 1952

7. Radio Services: Sam Gilliam Derek Walcott is a giant of American literature. Born in Saint Lucia in the West Indies in 1930, he began writing poetry and plays at the age of 18. http://www.census.gov/pubinfo/www/broadcast/radio/black_history_month/009437.htm

Skip this main site navigation menu Newsroom Releases Tip Sheets ... Black History Month Related Links: Newsroom Contacts Using Our Products Feedback Download Plug-ins Sam Gilliam February 2, 2008 You may Listen or download this story in .mp3 format. or as a .wav file Profile America for the second day of Black History Month. Sam Gilliam is recognized internationally as the foremost contemporary African-American artist, whose paintings reflect the school of art known as color field painting. Inspired by laundry hanging outside his Washington, D.C., studio, he was the first artist to champion displaying paintings as draped objects, rather than attached to a frame. His recent works are textured paintings that incorporate objects for a three-dimensional effect. One of Gilliam’s works hangs in the Census Bureau building in Suitland, Maryland, one of the most dramatic new federal office buildings in the country. There are 223,000 artists in the U.S., just over 5 percent of them African-American. This special edition of Profile America for Black History Month is a public service of the U.S. Census Bureau.

8. Derek Walcott Biography And Summary Derek Walcott biography with 727 pages of profile on Derek Walcott sourced from encyclopedias, critical essays, summaries, and research journals. http://www.bookrags.com/Derek_Walcott

Literature Guides Criticism/Essays Biographies Research Anything: All BookRags Literature Guides Essays Criticism Biographies Encyclopedias History Encyclopedias Films Periodic Table ... Amazon.com Derek Walcott Summary Order the Derek Walcott Summary Pack View 2 Derek Walcott Essays View 72 Derek Walcott Critical Essays Derek Walcott About 727 pages (218,163 words) in 78 products "Derek Walcott" Search Results Contents: Biographies Works by Author Summaries Criticism Biography Name: Derek Alton Walcott Birth Date: January 23, 1930 Place of Birth: Casties, St. Lucia, West Indies Nationality: West Indian Gender: Male Occupations: poet summary from source: Biography of Derek Alton Walcott 1,174 words, approx. 4 pages Nobel Prize winning poet and dramatist from the West Indies, Derek Alton Walcott (born 1930) used a synthesis of Caribbean dialects and English to explore the richness and conflicts of the complex cultural heritage of his homeland. Derek Alton Walcott... summary from source: Biography of Derek Alton Walcott 16,086 words, approx. 54 pages By the time In a Green Night first made its modest international appearance in 1962, Derek Walcott had already gained preeminence as a poet and playwright in the West Indies. Over the following decades he released a remarkable body of poetry and plays...

9. Derek Walcott Derek Walcott AKA Derek Alton Walcott. Born 23Jan-1930 Birthplace Castries, Santa Lucia. Gender Male Race or Ethnicity Multiracial http://www.nndb.com/people/987/000027906/

This is a beta version of NNDB Search: All Names Living people Dead people Band Names Book Titles Movie Titles Full Text for Derek Walcott AKA Derek Alton Walcott Born: 23-Jan Birthplace: Castries, Santa Lucia Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: Multiracial Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Poet Playwright , Author Nationality: St. Lucia Executive summary: In a Green Night Wife: Fay Moston (m. 1954, div. 1959) Wife: Margaret Ruth Maillard (m. 1962, div.) Wife: Norline Metivier (m. 1982, div.) University: St. Mary's College, Saint Lucia University: University of the West Indies, Jamaica Teacher: Boston University Nobel Prize for Literature MacArthur Fellowship Author of books: 25 Poems , poetry) Epitaph for the Young: XII Cantos , poetry) Poems , poetry) In a Green Night: Poems 1948–1960 , poetry) Selected Poems , poetry) The Castaway and Other Poems , poetry) The Gulf and Other Poems , poetry) Another Life , poetry) Sea Grapes , poetry) The Star-Apple Kingdom , poetry) Selected Poetry , poetry) The Fortunate Traveler , poetry) Midsummer , poetry) Collected Poems, 1948–1984

10. Literary Encyclopedia: Derek Walcott Derek Walcott was born on 23rd January 1930 in Castries, St Lucia. His mother was a teacher who helped him to publish his first volume of poetry, http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4575

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12. Poetry International Web - Derek Walcott Derek Walcott was born on St. Lucia, one of the small Windward Islands. His father, a civil servant who painted and wrote poetry, died when Derek and his http://international.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php

13. Two Poems, By Derek Walcott Derek Walcott. Selected Poems Farrar, Straus Giroux. Copyright © 2007 by Derek Walcott All rights reserved. Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission. http://www.poems.com/poem.php?date=13600

14. AGNI | 56 | Poetry | Achille In Africa By Derek Walcott Derek Walcott’s most recent book is The Arkansas Testament (Farrar, Straus Giroux, 1987). He was recently awarded the Queen’s Medal for poetry. (1989) http://www.bu.edu/agni/poetry/print/2002/56-walcott.html

Achille in Africa by Derek Walcott from Omeros, Book III In this book Achille, a Caribbean fisherman, is transported to Africa by a sea-swift. I Mangroves, their wrists in water, walked with the canoe. The swift, racing its browner shadow, screeched, then veered into a dark inlet. It was the last sound Achille knew from the other world. He feathered the paddle, steered away from the groping mangroves whose muddy shelves slipped warted crocodiles, slitting the pods of their eyes; then the horned river-horses rolling over themselves could capsize the keel. It was like the African movies he had yelped at in childhood. The endless river unreeled those images that flickered into real mirages: naked mangroves walking beside him, the knotted logs wriggling into the water, the wet, yawning boulders of oven-mouthed hippopotami. A skeletal warrior stood up straight in the stern and guided his shoulders, locked his neck in cold iron and altered the oar.

15. The Richmond Review, Book Review, Tiepolo's Hound By Derek Walcott Reviewed By A Derek Walcott is an identitypoet. Like Heaney, he writes out the identity politics inherent in creativity. He has been branded post-colonial for this http://www.richmondreview.co.uk/books/tiepoloshound.html

book review WHAT'S NEW LIBRARY FEATURES REVIEWS ... book reviews : Tiepolo's Hound by Derek Walcott Tiepolo's Hound Derek Walcott Tiepolo's Hound Derek Walcott London 2001 Merchandise Links Amazon.co.uk Tiepolo's Hound is written in couplets. In a work that takes as its theme the issue of artistic identity and exile, the couplet form suggests a drive towards cohesion. What was conflict is translated into a dialectically shaping poetic force where polarities work toward the same goala work unified both structurally and thematically. This is the work of a mature poetic mind. The book fictionalises the life story of Camille Pissaro. Herein, we perceive: Pissaro as provincial painter from St. Thomas aspiring to Paris, as alternatively ecstatic and homesick exile in Paris, as Sephardic Jew aspiring to a Christian tradition, as husband and father, and as vehicle for Walcott's narrative urge. As the poem advances we realise many things, but most significantly that the heart of this Pissaro's Paris is St. Thomas. Walcott has used his own painterly impulse to map states of artistic consciousness through light, which he has transposed to an interpretation of Pissaro's painting. The constant illustrative use of light and shade in this long poem signify both the boundaries of Pissaro's frame of aesthetic reference, and the boundaries of Walcott's interpretation of Pissaro. Often, Walcott walks the line between interpretation and self-expression. To that end, the book's opening stanzas are definitively the poet's ownthey represent his poetics of island life. Yet they also kindle the narrative into being:

16. Literature 1992 Press release, curriculum vitae, Nobel lecture, Swedish Nobel stamps. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1992/

Nobel Foundation Nobel Media Nobel Museum Nobel Peace Center ... Prize in Economics The Nobel Prize in Literature 1992 "for a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment" Derek Walcott Saint Lucia b. 1930 Titles, data and places given above refer to the time of the award. Printer Friendly Tell a Friend The 1992 Prize in: Physics Chemistry Medicine Literature Peace Economics Prev. year Next year The Nobel Prize in Literature 1992 Press Release Presentation Speech ... Other Resources See Also The article 'A Single, Homeless, Circling Satellite: Derek Walcott, 1992 Nobel Literature Laureate' Oldest, youngest, most awarded Who are the awarded women? Watch TheNobelPrize at YouTube Try the Nobel Prize Quiz! Sign up for News from Nobelprize.org var so = new SWFObject("/images/shortcuts/shortcut_big_calendar_07_after.swf", "Flash", "160", "160", "8.0.24.0"); so.addParam("quality", "best"); so.addVariable("CalendarDate", "2008-01-28"); so.write("banner_zone7"); About Nobelprize.org

17. Derek Walcott Includes biographical information, selected works, and suggestions for further reading. http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/walcott.htm

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback TimeSearch for Books and Writers by Bamber Gascoigne Derek (Alton) Walcott (1930-) The major West Indian poet and dramatist writing in English today. Derek Walcott has lived most of his life in Trinidad. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1992. Walcott has studied the conflict between the heritage of European and West Indian culture, the long way from slavery to independence, and his own role as a nomad between cultures. His poems are characterized by allusions to the English poetic tradition and a symbolic imagination that is at once personal and Caribbean. " Poetry, which is perfection's sweat but which must seem as fresh as the raindrops on a statue's brow, combines the natural and the marmoreal; it conjugates both tenses simultaneously: the past and the present, if the past is the sculpture and the present the beads of dew or rain on the forehead of the past. There is the buried language and there is the individual vocabulary, and the process of poetry is one of excavation and of self-discovery. " (from the

18. Derek Walcott Biography, photograph, and primary bibliography. Includes a RealAudio clip of the poet reading his work. http://www.poets.org/dwalc/

19. Derek Walcott Winner Of The 1992 Nobel Prize In Literature derek walcott, a Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature, at the Nobel Prize Internet Archive. http://www.nobelprizes.com/nobel/literature/1992a.html

D EREK W ALCOTT 1992 Nobel Laureate in Literature for a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment. Background Born: January 23, 1930 Place of Birth: Castries, St. Lucia Residence: Trinidad and Boston Book Store Omeros The Arkansas Testament Collected Poems 1948-1984 Other Books by/about Derek Walcott Featured Internet Links Nobel Lecture Press release Curriculum vitae Swedish Nobel Stamps Search WWW Search The Nobel Prize Internet Archive Nobel News Links The Passions of Derek Walcott Excerpt of Tomorrow, Tomorrow Poet Walcott of BU Wins Nobel Prize ... Derek Walcott's Poetry Links added by Nobel Internet Archive visitors Tomorrow, Tomorrow Night Fishing (submitted by Steve Hilderbrand To Norline (submitted by Steve Hilderbrand Derek Walcott's The Star-Apple Kingdom, extracts (submitted by Marie-Paule Cobert excerpts from Walcott poetry (submitted by Carib-Queen A Derek Walcott Page (submitted by Dirk Sinnewe Derek Walcott reading, seminar and watercolor show (submitted by Judy Axenson St Lucia - ein Dichter schwärmt von seiner Insel ( Storie in German) (submitted by Norbert Bruhn A website on Derek Walcott's place of birth- St.Lucia

20. Adorno.html Contains biographical, bibliographical and secondary material on the author. http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Walcott.html

Derek Walcott I who am poisoned with the blood of both Where shall I turn, divided to the vein? I who have cursed The drunken officer of British rule, how choose Between this Africa and the British tongue I love? from "A Far Cry from Africa" Introduction Early Life and Poetry Walcott was born in 1930 on the island of St. Lucia, the posthumous child of a civil servant and a schoolteacher, and the descendent of two white grandfathers and two black grandmothers. Though his first language was a French-English patois, he received an English education, an apprenticeship in language that his mother supported by reciting English poetry at home and by exposing her children to the European classics at an early age. In "What the Twilight Says," an autobiographical essay published in 1970, Walcott writes of the two worlds that informed his childhood: "Colonials, we began with this malarial enervation: that nothing could ever be built among these rotting shacks, barefooted backyards and moulting shingles; that being poor, we already had the theater of our lives. In that simple schizophrenic boyhood one could lead two lives: the interior life of poetry, and the outward life of action and dialect (4)." Early Dramatic Writings Mature Writings Life and Work in the United States Nobel Prize and Omeros Since winning the Nobel Prize, Walcott has continued to write prolifically, producing a new epic poem, The Bounty, in 1992 and, more recently, a collection of poems entitled Tiepolo’s Hounds, which examines the life and art of impressionist painter Camille Pissarro. In these works, he continues to explore the complex legacy of colonialism with a poetic vision that recognizes the range of traditions comprising his beloved West Indies, and with a poetic voice that harmonizes the discord between the English canon and his native dialect.

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