Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Birthday

January 23, 1930

Place of Birth

Castries, Saint Lucia, West Indies

Died

March 17, 2017

Derek Walcott

Biography

Sir Derek Alton Walcott KCSL OBE OM OCC was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works include the Homeric epic poem Omeros, which many critics view "as Walcott's major achievement."