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Title & Link
Transcript from an interview with Derek Walcott - NobelPrize.org
Publish Date
April 28, 2005
Interviewees
Derek Walcott
Interviewers
Simon Stanford
Publisher
Nobel Foundation
Topics
Advice to young students
Audience the writer writes for
Being awarded the Nobel Prize
Caribbean background
Commercialisation of culture
Early vocation to become a poet
Influences from Caribbean culture
Inspiration behind writing 'Omeros'
People Mentioned
Czeslaw Milosz
Naipaul
Works Mentioned
'Omeros'
Places Mentioned
Boston University
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