Walcott was brought up in Methodist schools. He died when Walcott and his brother were one year old, and were left to be raised by their mother. His father was a civil servant and a talented painter. His mother, a teacher, loved the arts and often recited poetry around the house. His family is of English, Dutch and African descent, reflecting the complex colonial history of the island that he explores in his poetry. He had a twin brother, the playwright Roderick Walcott, and a sister, Pamela Walcott. Walcott was born and raised in Castries, Saint Lucia, in the West Indies, the son of Alix (Maarlin) and Warwick Walcott. Eliot Prize for his book of poetry White Egrets and the Griffin Trust For Excellence in Poetry Lifetime Recognition Award in 2015.
His works include the Homeric epic poem Omeros (1990), which many critics view "as Walcott's major achievement." In addition to winning the Nobel Prize, Walcott received many literary awards over the course of his career, including an Obie Award in 1971 for his play Dream on Monkey Mountain, a MacArthur Foundation "genius" award, a Royal Society of Literature Award, the Queen's Medal for Poetry, the inaugural OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, the 2010 T.
He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. Sir Derek Alton Walcott KCSL OBE OCC (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright. Walcott at an honorary dinner in Amsterdam, ĭream on Monkey Mountain (1967), Omeros (1990), White Egrets (2007)
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