Photo: © 1989 Virginia Schendler
Derek Walcott's most recent work, Odyssey: A Stage Version, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1993, along with his Nobel Lecture, The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory. His poetry collections include: Omeros (1990), The Arkansas Testament (1987), Collected Poems 1948-84 (1986), Midsummer (1984), The Fortunate Traveller (1981), The Star-Apple Kingdom (1979), Another Life (1973), The Gulf (1970), and
Selected Poems (1964). He has also published four collections of plays and is the
founder of the Trinidad Theater Workshop. His numerous honors include the 1992
Nobel Prize for Literature, the Guinness Award for Poetry, a Royal Society of Literature
Award, the Cholmondeley Prize, the Welsh Arts Council International Writers Prize, a
five-year fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation in 1981 and the Queens Medal for
Poetry in 1988. He is an honorary member of the American Academy and Institute of
Arts and Letters. Derek Walcott lives in Trinidad and, during the academic year,
Boston, where he teaches at Boston University.
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