Sir Derek Alton Walcott, who lived from 1930 to 2017, was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright who received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature; the Nobel committee praised his work as a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity sustained by a historical vision, and he was hailed as the Caribbean Homer. He is best known for the epic poem Omeros (1990), which draws on Homer's Iliad while exploring Caribbean themes and postcolonial identity, and his dramatic work includes Dream on Monkey Mountain, which won an Obie Award in 1971; he also won the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2010 for White Egrets and a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, and his career spanned poetry, drama and essays.
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By 19, Walcott had self-published his first two collections with the aid of his mother, who paid for the printing: 25 Poems (1948) and Epitaph for the Young: XII Cantos (1949).
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