Nobel laureate
Derek Walcott — Nobel Prize in Literature 1992
“for a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment”
Prize motivation
“for a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment”
The Swedish Academy awarded Derek Walcott the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature for a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment.
Other laureates of the 1990s
Sources & data
- Nobel Prize API (CC0).