Derek Walcott
1930–2017 · Saint Lucian · 20th Century
Known for: Nobel laureate who rewrote The Odyssey for the Caribbean — the Homer of the West Indies
Walcott won the Nobel (1992) for Omeros and a vast body of poetry and drama rooted in Caribbean experience.
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