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<text id=92TT2356>
<title>
Oct. 19, 1992: Nobel Prize
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
Oct. 19, 1992 The Homestretch: Clinton in Control
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK, Page 24
SOCIETY
Nobel Prize
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<p> AN ISLAND BARD
</p>
<p> A native-born Caribbean author had never won the Nobel
Prize in Literature -- until last week, when the Swedish Academy
bestowed the $1.2 million laurel on poet Derek Walcott. The
choice had some of the earmarks of political correctness: of
mixed ancestry (African, Dutch, English), Walcott was born 62
years ago on St. Lucia in what was then the British West Indies.
</p>
<p> But the implication is misleading. Walcott, who teaches at
Boston University, has long been regarded as one of the finest
living poets in English; he adapted his colonial overseers'
language to non-English subjects and unfamiliar landscapes. His
10 volumes of poetry -- especially the epic-scale Omeros (1990)
-- give an exotic tropical world the rhythms of universality.
</p>
</body></article>
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