{"id":8402,"date":"2025-03-17T15:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T15:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=8402"},"modified":"2025-06-06T12:46:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T11:46:24","slug":"derek-walcott","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/derek-walcott\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek Walcott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Born in St Lucia, in the West Indies, in 1930, Derek Walcott studied at the University College of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica. His collection of poems <em>In a Green Night: Poems 1948-1960<\/em> (Jonathan Cape, 1962), celebrating the Caribbean, brought him to public attention. Subsequent works include <em>Omeros<\/em> (Faber &amp; Faber, 1990), an epic poem in which he invokes the lives and voices of the people of the Caribbean through Greek myth and epic, which the WH Smith Literary Award; and <em>White Egrets<\/em> (Faber &amp; Faber, 2010), winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize 2010. He was also shortlisted for Eliot Prize for <em>The Bounty<\/em> in 1997 and <em>Tiepolo&#8217;s Hound <\/em>in 2000. His <em>Collected Poems 1948-1984<\/em> were published in 1986. He was awarded the Queen\u2019s Gold Medal for Poetry in 1988, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992. He died in 2017. <em>Author photo \u00a9 Nigel Parry<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born in St Lucia, in the West Indies, in 1930, Derek Walcott studied at the University College of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica. His collection of poems In a Green Night: Poems 1948-1960 (Jonathan Cape, 1962), celebrating the Caribbean, brought him to public attention. Subsequent works include Omeros (Faber &amp; Faber, 1990), an epic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9164,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-8402","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/8402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}