Derek Walcott
1930 – 2017 · Saint Lucia · Literature
Nobel Prize in Literature, 1992
Omeros transplanted Homer to the Caribbean.
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- Kamau Brathwaite
1930 – 2020 · Literature, History
Their debate over creole and canon set the terms of Caribbean poetics.
- William Shakespeare
1564 – 1616 · Literature
Walcott writes Caribbean history in and against the English dramatic canon.
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