Derek Walcott

Derek Walcott was born in St. Lucia, the West Indies, in 1930. His "Collected Poems: 1948-1984" was published in 1986, and his subsequent works include a book-length poem, "Omeros" (1990); a collection of verse, "The Bounty" (1997); and, in an edition illustrated with his own paintings, the long poem "Tiepolo's Hound" (2000). His most recent collections of plays are "The Haitian Trilogy" (2001) and "Walker and The Ghost Dance" (2002). Walcott received the Queen's Medal for Poetry in 1988 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992.