Sir Derek Alton Walcott, KCSL, OBE, OCC was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was Professor of Poetry at the University of Essex from 2010 to 2013. Walcott was born and raised in Castries, Saint Lucia, in the West Indies, the son of Alix (Maarlin) and […]