Died Nobel prize winner for literature Derek Walcott
Poet and playwright, Nobel prize winner for literature Derek Walcott, died in the island country of Saint Lucia. On Friday, March 17, the Associated Press reports.
The writer was 87 years old. He died at his home, cause of death not specified.
Walcott received the Nobel prize in 1992 with the words “for bright poetry, full of historicism and resulting devotion to the culture in all its diversity”.
In his bibliography of more than 40 collections and dramatic productions. His main work is considered the epic poem “Omeros”.
He has also taught at Boston University and Harvard. Walcott was one of the contenders for the post of honorary Professor of poetry at Oxford University, but was forced to withdraw his candidacy because of anonymous letters, in which he was accused of sexual harassment, allegedly committed in 1980-ies.
Derek Walcott was born in 1930 in Saint Lucia. In addition to the Nobel, is awarded Sterns Thomas Elliot.