Derek Alton Walcott is a Caribbean poet, playwright, writer and visual artist. Born in Castries, Saint Lucia[1], he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992.
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, an allusive, loose reworking of Homeric story and tradition into a journey within the Caribbean and beyond to the Africa, New England, the American West, Canada, and London (with frequent reference to the Greek Islands).
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 retired from teaching poetry and drama in the Creative Writing Department at Boston University in 2007. In fall 2009, he will commence a three year distinguished scholar in residence position at University of Alberta. He continues to give readings and lectures throughout the world. He divides his time between his home in the Caribbean and New York City.
Source and more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott
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Omeros
7 editions - first published in 1990 -
The Prodigal: A Poem
5 editions - first published in 2004 -
Another life
5 editions - first published in 1973 Borrow -
Remembrance and Pantomime: two plays
4 editions - first published in 1980 -
The gulf
4 editions - first published in 1970 -
The bounty: Poems
4 editions - first published in 1997 -
What the twilight says: essays
4 editions - first published in 1998 Borrow -
Midsummer
3 editions - first published in 1984 -
The poet in the theatre
3 editions - first published in 1990 -
Selected Poems
3 editions - first published in 1964 -
In a green night: poems, 1948-1960.
3 editions - first published in 1962 -
The Odyssey: A Stage Version
3 editions - first published in 1993 -
The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory
3 editions - first published in 1993 -
The castaway, and other poems
2 editions - first published in 1965 -
Malcauchon, or, The six in the rain
2 editions - first published in 1966 -
Capeman: A Musical
2 editions - first published in 1998 -
Three Plays: The Last Carnival / Beef, No Chicken / A Branch of the Blue Nile
2 editions - first published in 1986 -
Joker of Seville: Two plays
2 editions - first published in 1978 -
White egrets: poems
2 editions - first published in 2010 -
The fortunate traveller
2 editions - first published in 1981 Read -
Sea grapes
2 editions - first published in 1976 -
Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays
2 editions - first published in 1971 -
The star-apple kingdom
2 editions - first published in 1979 Borrow -
Voz del Crepusculo, La
1 edition - first published in 2000 -
The castaway: and other poems.
1 edition - first published in 1972 -
Poems 1965-1980
1 edition - first published in 1992 -
Ti Jean et ses frères
1 edition - first published in 1998 -
Mittsommer / Midsummer
1 edition - first published in 2001 -
Heureux le voyageur
1 edition - first published in 1997 -
La Odisea
1 edition - first published in 2006 -
Selected poetry
1 edition - first published in 1981 -
Erzaehlungen Von Den Inseln
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Derek Walcott Reads
1 edition - first published in 1994 -
Collected Poems, 1948-84
1 edition - first published in 1992 -
The sea at Dauphin
1 edition - first published in 1966 -
Le royaume du fruit-étoile
1 edition - first published in 1997 -
Derek Walcott Collected Poems: 1948-1984
1 edition - first published in 1990 -
The Arkansas testament
1 edition - first published in 1987 -
Collected Poems
1 edition - first published in 1986 -
The gulf, and other poems
1 edition - first published in 1969 -
Das Königreich des Sternapfels
1 edition - first published in 1989 -
Walker: and, The ghost dance
1 edition - first published in 2002 -
The Haitian trilogy
1 edition - first published in 2002 -
Tiepolo's hound
1 edition - first published in 2000 -
Conversations with Derek Walcott
1 edition - first published in 1996 -
Une autre vie
1 edition - first published in 2002 -
The Caribbean poetry of Derek Walcott & the art of Romare Bearden
1 edition - first published in 1983 -
Derek Walcott
1 edition - first published in 1993 -
Marie LaVeau: and, Steel : plays
1 edition - first published in 2010 -
The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory: The Nobel Lecture
1 edition - first published in 1993 DAISY -
Selected Poetry
1 edition - first published in 1994 -
Selected Poetry
1 edition - first published in 1993 -
Plays for Today
1 edition - first published in 1986 -
Reino del Caimito, El
1 edition - first published in 1997 -
Ploughshares
1 edition - first published in 1987 -
Walker and The Ghost Dance: Plays
1 edition - first published in 2002 -
Dream on Monkey Mountain: and other plays.
1 edition - first published in 1970 Borrow
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