Derek Walcott
Derek Walcott OBE, TC ( born January 23, 1930 in Castries, Saint Lucia) is a Caribbean poet and writer. 1992 Walcott was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2011 and the TS Eliot Prize for his poetry collection White Egrets. He was also awarded in 2004 for his life's work with the Anisfield - Wolf Book Award.
Life and write
Walcott combines in his work Caribbean and African roots, but builds on the tradition of Anglo-American poet. His theatrical work is also strongly influenced by Bertolt Brecht. His best known work is the epic poem Omeros (1990 ), an adaptation of Homer from the cultural perspective of the Caribbean.
His first published poem Walcott with 14 years, and had 19 years already, the two books of poems 25 Poems (1948 ) and Epitaph for the Young: XII Cantos (1949 ) brought out self-published. He studied at the University of the West Indies in Kingston and then moved to Trinidad in 1953 to work as a critic, lecturer and journalist. Six years later, Walcott founded the Trinidad Theatre Workshop, which produces its own and other dramas and lists, on whose board he continues to work. At Boston University Boston University in the U.S. in 1981, he founded the Boston Playwrights ' Theatre. There Walcott taught until his retirement in 2007, literature and writing.
His studies of Caribbean history and culture during and after the colonial era is reflected in the collection In a Green Night: Poems 1948-1960 (1962 ) contradict that found international echo. Most recently, he published Tiepolo 's Hound (2000) and The Prodigal (2004) and with Britain and Ireland's highest award for thoughtful lyricist White Egrets (2010), whose emotional freshness and technical finesse were praised.
Since 2009, Walcott was a visiting professor at the University of Alberta. A close friendship Walcott connects with Nigerian writer Ben Okri.
Awards and Honors
Works
Poetry collections
- Midsummer Midsummer =, dt of Raoul Schrott, The Hague: Mouton 2001: ISBN 3-446-20102-5
- Tales from the Islands - poems, German by Klaus Martens; The Hague: Mouton, 1993 ISBN 3-446-17450-8.
- Omeros; German Konrad block; The Hague: Mouton, 1995 ISBN 3-446-18299-3.
- The Prodigal Son, bilingual English / German; German by Daniel Göske; The Hague: Mouton, 2007 ISBN 3-446-20757-0.
- White Egrets, bilingual English / German; German by Werner von Koppenfels; The Hague: Mouton, 2012 ISBN 978-3-446-23867-1.
Dramas
- (1970 ) Dream on Monkey Mountain
- (1970 ) Ti -Jean and His Brothers
- (1980 ) Pantomime
- (1998) The Capeman
Essays
- (1998) What the Twilight Says