Caribbean literature
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Caribbean literature is the literature of the various territories of the Caribbean region. Literature in English from the former British West Indies may be referred to as Anglo-Caribbean or, in histor
Marlon James at the 2010 Brooklyn Book Festival
Derek Walcott
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Sir Derek Alton Walcott was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright.
Caribbean literature
…variation—now commonly termed nation language—and the standard form of the language. Two West Indian writers have won the Nobel Prize for literature: Derek Walcott (1992), born in St. Lucia, resident mostly in Trinidad during the 1960s and '70s, and partly in the United States since then; and V. S. Naipaul (2001…
Walcott at an honorary dinner in Amsterdam, 20 May 2008
Walcott at VIII Festival Internacional, 1992
Wall poem "Omeros" in Leiden
Wall poem "Midsummer, Tobago" in The Hague