The Oxford Companion to English Literature | Walcott, Derek Alton
Walcott, Derek
Alton
(
1930
–
), poet and playwright, born in St Lucia, in the West Indies, and educated at the University College of the West Indies. He founded the Trinidad Theatre Workshop in
1959
, and many of his own plays had their first performances there. These include Dream on Monkey Mountain (
1967
, pub.
1971
), The Joker of Seville (
1974
, pub.
1978
; based on
Tirso da Molina
's El burlador de Sevilla), O Babylon' (
1976
, pub.
1978
; set amongst a Rastafarian community in Kingston, Jamaica), and Viva Detroit (
1992
). His collections of poetry include In a Green Night: Poems 1948–60 (
1962
), The Castaway and Other Poems (
1965
), Sea Grapes (
1976
), The Fortunate Traveller (
1982
), Midsummer (
1983
), Collected Poems (
1986
), The Arkansas Testament (
1987
), and his epic Caribbean Odyssey Omeros (
1989
)....
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