The Author: Derek Walcott
You wanna know why we need to know about the author right? Well somehow the author's life actually ties in with his writing and the work he creates. So the next post will involve Mr. Walcott's life and things we should know about.
He looks like:
B/N; Check uncle nahhhh~ Looking all fine and charismatic like he popped out of a vogue shoot for successful writers- and the pen looking like a c*gar. Those pretty eyes and aged features that shows his experience of life- and oml the photographer chose right... the angle- the lighting- the sheer look of the combination of efforts that enhanced his own natural charm. Amazing.... and my thing is clothes ngl as typical as it seems of late but the choice of the layers on the red mock neck, then the deep mustard button down followed by the plain black/ moss green over coat? It's colour harmony- *deep inhale anyways....
Derek Walcott is from the Caribbean believe it or not. Born in Castries, St. Lucia. Yup-- a Caribbean poet and author who has published work, hailed and studied around the globe. They exist and even more amazingly- he won a Nobel Prize! Yup Sir is big up in the game. So for his biographical data or background information we shall take it form the Noble prize's website:
Derek Walcott was born in 1930 in the town of Castries in Saint Lucia, one of the Windward Islands in the Lesser Antilles.
The experience of growing up on the isolated volcanic island, an ex-British colony, has had a strong influence on Walcott’s life and work.
Both his grandmothers were said to have been the descendants of slaves.
His father, a Bohemian watercolourist, died when Derek and his twin brother, Roderick, were only a few years old.
His mother ran the town’s Methodist school. After studying at St. Mary’s College in his native island and at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica, Walcott moved in 1953 to Trinidad, where he has worked as theatre and art critic.
At the age of 18, he made his debut with 25 Poems, but his breakthrough came with the collection of poems, In a Green Night (1962).
In 1959, he founded the Trinidad Theatre Workshop which produced many of his early plays.
Walcott has been an assiduous traveller to other countries but has always, not least in his efforts to create an indigenous drama, felt himself deeply-rooted in Caribbean society with its cultural fusion of African, Asiatic and European elements.
For many years, he has divided his time between Trinidad, where he has his home as a writer, and Boston University, where he teaches literature and creative writing.
I underlined the more important stuff. and In the next Post we shall start with the actual Play.
