Sir Derek Alton Walcott was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1992, announced October 8, 1992. Derek Walcott, “for a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment”. Derek Walcott: born 1930, Castries, Saint Lucia. Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).