Derek Walcott

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.

In the catalogue 2

• TheatreDream on Monkey MountainDerek Walcott · 1970Literature
• PoetryOmerosDerek Walcott · 1990Literature