Editing Derek Walcott (section)

==Awards and honours==
* 1969: [[Cholmondeley Award]]<ref name=chidi/>
* 1971: [[Obie Award]] for Best Foreign Play (for ''Dream on Monkey Mountain'')<ref name=chidi>{{cite book|last1=Chidi|first1=Sylvia Lovina|title=The Greatest Black Achievers in History|date=2004|publisher=Lulu|isbn=9781291909333|pages=34–37|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lzjNBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA35|access-date=5 April 2017|archive-date=8 August 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240808090900/https://books.google.com/books?id=lzjNBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA35#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref>
* 1972: [[Officer of the Order of the British Empire]]<ref name="Oxford University"/>
* 1981: MacArthur Foundation Fellowship ("genius award")<ref name=chidi/>
* 1988: [[Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry]]<ref name=iww/>
* 1990: [[Arts Council of Wales]] International Writers Prize<ref name=chidi/>
* 1990: [[W. H. Smith Literary Award]] (for poetry ''Omeros'')<ref name=iww/>
* 1992: [[Nobel Prize in Literature]]<ref name=iww/>
* 2004: [[Anisfield-Wolf Book Award]] for Lifetime Achievement<ref name="anisfield-wolf.org">[http://www.anisfield-wolf.org/books/lifetime-derek-walcott/?sortby=year "Derek Walcott, 2004 – Lifetime Achievement"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141107071348/http://www.anisfield-wolf.org/books/lifetime-derek-walcott/?sortby=year |date=7 November 2014 }}, Winners – Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.</ref>
* 2008: Honorary doctorate from the [[University of Essex]]<ref name=UoE />
* 2011: [[T. S. Eliot Prize]] (for poetry collection ''White Egrets'')<ref Name="Eliot"/>
* 2011: [[OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature]] (for ''White Egrets'')<ref name=bocas/>
* 2015: [[Griffin Poetry Prize|Griffin Trust For Excellence in Poetry]] Lifetime Recognition Award<ref>{{cite web|title=2015 – Derek Walcott|url=http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/awards-and-poets/lifetime-recognition-award/derek-walcott/|publisher=The Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry|access-date=5 April 2017|location=Oakville, Ontario|date=3 June 2015|archive-date=29 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170329164521/http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/awards-and-poets/lifetime-recognition-award/derek-walcott/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* 2016: [[Order of Saint Lucia|Knight Commander of the Order of Saint Lucia]]<ref name=list/>