Derek Walcott

Sir Derek Walcott
Walcott pada 20 Mei 2008
Lahir	Derek Alton Walcott (1930-01-23)23 Januari 1930 Castries, Saint Lucia
Meninggal dunia	17 Mac 2017(2017-03-17) (umur 87) Cap Estate, Gros-Islet, Saint Lucia
Pekerjaan	Penyair, pengarang lakon, profesor
Warganegara	Saint Lucia
Genre	Sajak dan sandiwara
Pergerakan sastera	Pasca jajahan, pasca moden
Karya terkenal	Omeros, Dream on Monkey Mountain, White Egrets
Anugerah	Hadiah Nobel dalam Kesusasteraan (1992), Hadiah T. S. Eliot (2011)
Anak	3
Tandatangan

Sir Derek Alton Walcott, KCSL, OBE, OCC (23 Januari 1930 - 17 Mac 2017) ialah seorang penyair dan penulis drama Saint Lucian. Beliau menerima Hadiah Nobel dalam Sastera 1992. Beliau ialah ulama terkemuka di Universiti Alberta di kediaman, di mana beliau mengajar kursus penulisan sarjana dan lepasan. Beliau juga berkhidmat sebagai Profesor Puisi di Universiti Essex dari tahun 2010 hingga 2013. Karya-karyanya termasuk puisi Homeric epic Omeros (1990), yang banyak pengkritik melihat "sebagai pencapaian utama Walcott." Selain memenangi Hadiah Nobel, Walcott menerima banyak penghargaan sastera sepanjang kariernya, termasuk Anugerah Obie pada tahun 1971 untuk memainkannya di Dream on Monkey Mountain, anugerah "genius" MacArthur Foundation, Royal Society of Literature Award Pingat Queen of Poetry, Hadiah OCM Bocas untuk Kesusasteraan Caribbean, Hadiah TS Eliot 2011 untuk buku puisi White Egrets dan Griffin Trust For Excellence dalam Penghargaan Pengiktirafan Sepanjang Hayat Puisi pada tahun 2015.

Bacaan lanjut

• Baer, William, ed. Conversations with Derek Walcott. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1996.
• Baugh, Edward, Derek Walcott. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
• Breslin, Paul, Nobody's Nation: Reading Derek Walcott. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. ISBN 0-226-07426-9
• Brown, Stewart, ed., The Art of Derek Walcott. Chester Springs, PA.: Dufour, 1991; Bridgend: Seren Books, 1992.
• Burnett, Paula, Derek Walcott: Politics and Poetics. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001.
• Fumagalli, Maria Cristina, The Flight of the Vernacular: Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott and the Impress of Dante. Amsterdam-New York: Rodopi, 2001.
• Fumagalli, Maria Cristina, Agenda 39:1–3 (2002–03), Special Issue on Derek Walcott. Includes Derek Walcott's "Epitaph for the Young" (1949), republished here in its entirety.
• Hamner, Robert D., Derek Walcott. Updated Edition. Twayne's World Authors Series. TWAS 600. New York: Twayne, 1993.
• King, Bruce, Derek Walcott and West Indian Drama: "Not Only a Playwright But a Company": The Trinidad Theatre Workshop 1959–1993. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995.
• King, Bruce, Derek Walcott, A Caribbean Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
• "Forms of Exile: Experimental Self-Positioning in Postcolonial Caribbean Poetry". doi:10.1080/14788810.2016.1220790.
• Sarkar, Nirjhar. "Existence as self-making in Derek Walcott's The Sea at Dauphin". Anthurium. 14.2 (2018): 1–15.
• Terada, Rei, Derek Walcott's Poetry: American Mimicry. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1992.
• Thieme, John, Derek Walcott. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999.

Pautan luar

• British Council writers' profile, works listing, critical review
• Profile, poems written and audio at Poetry Archive
• Profile and poems at Poetry Foundation
• Profile, poems audio and written, Poetry of American Poets
• Profile and analysis, Emory University
• Profile, interviews, articles, archive. Prague Writers' Festival
• Edward Hirsch, "Derek Walcott, The Art of Poetry No. 37", The Paris Review, Winter 1986
• Lannan Foundation Reading and Conversation With Glyn Maxwell. November 2002 (audio).
• Biography available in Saint Lucians and the Order of CARICOM
• Penampilan Derek Walcott di C-SPAN
• Appearance on Desert Island Discs, BBC Radio 4, 9 June 1991