Awards & Winners

Derek Walcott

Date of Birth 23-January-1930
Place of Birth Castries
(Saint Lucia, Castries Quarter)
Nationality Saint Lucia
Also know as Derek Alton Walcott, Derek A. Walcott
Profession Poet, Playwright, Professor, Writer, Lyricist
Derek Alton Walcott, OBE OCC is a Saint Lucian poet and playwright. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is currently Professor of poetry at the University of Essex. His works include the Homeric epic poem, Omeros, which many critics view "as Walcott's major achievement." In addition to having won the Nobel, Walcott has won 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, and the 2011 T. S. Eliot Prize for his book of poetry, White Egrets.

Awards by Derek Walcott

Check all the awards nominated and won by Derek Walcott.

2011


Nominations 2011 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Poetry White Egrets
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

2009


Nominations 2009 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Poetry Selected Poems
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

2008


Nominations 2008 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Poetry Selected poems

2004


Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
(Lifetime Achievement Award)

1998


Nominations 1998 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Original Score The Capeman

1992


Nobel Prize in Literature
(for a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment)

1971


Obie Award for Best Foreign Play
Honored for : Dream on Monkey Mountain