Birth Name:

Derek Alton Walcott

Male

Birth Date:

Thu, Jan 23, 1930

Time of Birth:

12:00 AM

Place of Birth:

Castries, Castries, Saint Lucia

Age:

94

Zodiac Sign:

Aquarius

Astrology Data:

Sun

2°

Aqu

26'

Moon

19°

Sco

48'

Asc

29°

Lib

57'

MC

28°

Can

38'

About Derek Walcott

Sir Derek Alton Walcott, KCSL, OBE, OCC (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was the University of Alberta's first distinguished scholar in residence, where he taught undergraduate and graduate writing courses. He also served as Professor of Poetry at the University of Essex from 2010 to 2013. 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 2011 T. S. Eliot Prize for his book of poetry White Egrets and the Griffin Trust For Excellence in Poetry Lifetime Recognition Award in 2015.

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• British Council writers' profile, works listing, critical review

• Profile, poems written and audio at Poetry Archive

• Profile and poems at Poetry Foundation

• Profile, poems audio and written, Poetry of American Poets

• Profile and analysis, Emory University

• Profile, interviews, articles, archive. Prague Writers' Festival

• Lannan Foundation Reading and Conversation With Glyn Maxwell. November 2002 (audio).

• Biography available in Saint Lucians and the Order of CARICOM

• Appearances on C-SPAN

• Appearance on Desert Island Discs, BBC Radio 4, 9 June 1991

• Derek Walcott on Nobelprize.org

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Derek Walcott: Sun 2 Aquarius, Moon 19 Scorpio, Mercury 29 Capricorn, Venus 28 Capricorn, Mars 18 Capricorn, Jupiter 6 Gemini, Saturn 6 Capricorn, Uranus 8 Aries, Neptune 2 Virgo, Pluto 18 Cancer, Asc 29 Libra, Mc 28 Cancer, Sun Square Ascendant, Mercury Opposition Midheaven, Sun Conjunct Venus, Sun Trine Jupiter, Mercury Conjunct Venus, Mercury Square Ascendant, Sun Quincunx Neptune, Moon Trine Pluto, Sun Conjunct Mercury, Sun Opposition Midheaven, Moon Sextile Mars, Moon Semi Square Saturn, Venus Square Ascendant, Venus Opposition Midheaven, Mars Sesquiquadrate Jupiter, Mars Sesquiquadrate Neptune, Mars Opposition Pluto, Jupiter Quincunx Saturn, Jupiter Sextile Uranus, Jupiter Square Neptune, Saturn Square Uranus, Saturn Trine Neptune, Neptune Semi Square Pluto, Neptune Sextile Ascendant, Ascendant Square Midheaven

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Photo attribution: Bert Nienhuis, File of the Werkgroep Caraibische Letteren, The Netherlands