The Tribune

THE BAHAMAS government over the weekend issued a tribute to the life and legacy of Caribbean Nobel Prize winning poet, Dereck Alton Walcott.

Mr Walcott, also a noted playwright and painter, died peacefully at his home in Cap Estate, St Lucia on Friday.

“The Bahamas extends heartfelt condolences to his family and the Government and people of St. Lucia,”. read a press statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

“Walcott, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1992, was a prolific and versatile poet, whose immense body of work included the epic poem Omeros and the plays the Last Carnival and Dream on Monkey Mountain, the latter of which earned him an Obie Award.

It continued: “While his birth place was St Lucia, he identified with and took every opportunity to celebrate the Caribbean. This luminary of the Caribbean will be sorely missed and we thank him immensely for the rich body of work he has left with us. May his soul rest in peace.”

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