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Author · Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Lucia

Derek Walcott

Died in 2017

Derek Walcott was born on 23 January 1930 in Castries, in Saint Lucia, into a family of English, Dutch and African descent; his father, a painter, died when he was one year old. Educated in Saint Lucia and then at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica, he settled in Trinidad in 1953, as a critic and teacher, and founded there in 1959 a theatre workshop that became a renowned company. Nobel Prize winner in 1992, he died in Saint Lucia on 17 March 2017.

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