Derek Walcott
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- Author: Derek Walcott
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Derek Walcott has written many plays, published in Dream on Monkey Mountain, and Other Plays (1970), The Joker of Seville and O Babylon! Two Plays (1978), Remembrance and Pantomime: Two Plays (1980), and Three Plays (1986), as well as The Odyssey (1993); The Capeman, a musical with music by Paul Simon (1998); and The Haitian Trilogy (2001). His nonfiction includes his Nobel Prize lecture, The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory (1993); a collaboration with Joseph Brodsky and Seamus...
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