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Derek Walcott
 
 

Biographical Information

Caribbean madler search infopoet, 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 Ant illes 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 (1)


Studied at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica


Founded the Trinidad Theater Workshop (1959)


Studied theatre in tmy rape diary part 8 my rape diary the final part my rape fantasy hard rape gang rape my rape rape porn sexual torture anal rape free rape rape erotic stories rape women rape sex pornhe United States under a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship


MacArthur Foundation Genius Award (1981)


Alternated living in Trinidad and in Boston, Massac husetts, teaching at Harvard and Boston University


Nobel Prize (1992)

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