Derek Walcott - Awards & Nominations

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

1996

Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service	(Literature)

1992

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

1977

Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada	(Drama & Performance Art)

1971

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

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