Derek Walcott

Derek Walcott

Derek Walcott (born 1930), the poet, the Nobel Prize for Literature, the 1992

Born

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1930, January 1930, January 23rd 1930, North America, the Caribbean,  …

Latin America, the world, the Americas, Saint Lucia, the Northern Hemisphere, the Lesser Antilles, the Antilles, the Windward Islands, Castries, Castries, the West Indies, the UK 'rest of the world' postal zone, US postal group 9, the area using the NANP, the Atlantic Standard Time region, the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union, North America

Died

9 AD

Wrote

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The Capeman; Dream on Monkey Mountain; Steel; Ti-Jean and His Brothers; Henri Christophe: A Chronicle in Seven Scenes;  …

The Joker of Seville; Beef, No Chicken

Wikipedia Page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott

Won

Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize in Literature (1992)

Gender

male

Nationality

st lucian

Main Occupation

poet, playwright

Age at Death

between -1,921 years and 0 months and -1,920 years and 1 month old

Class

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musician, person, artist, writer, poet,  …

playwright, academic, aquarius person, musical act, author, male person, award winner

Did

die

Born During

1930s

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Related Websites

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http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/220, http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/derek-walcott, http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=7830, http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=authC2D9C28A0a4dc1BE88LsX2F7F9A1, http://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/beyond-regrets,  …

http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2719/the-art-of-poetry-no-37-derek-walcott, http://www.pwf.cz/en/authors-archive/derek-walcott, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6256746.ece, http://www.radioopensource.org/calabash-08-first-the-fireworks, http://www.bostonplaywrights.org, http://www.thepoetryforum.org/poets.html, http://www.lannan.org/lf/rc/event/derek-walcott, http://www.ttw.org.tt, http://www.postcolonialweb.org/caribbean/walcott/walcottov.html, http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/1992/index.html, http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/w/derek_walcott

Influences

John Figueroa

OpenCyc ID

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DBPedia URI

http://dbpedia.org/resource/Derek_Walcott

Birthday

the 23rd of January

Quotes

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"We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past."; "Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves."; "This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo."; "The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts."; "Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god.";  …

"Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole."; "Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic."; "A culture, we all know, is made by its cities."

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