德里克·沃尔科特生平

mu

德里克·沃尔科特(1930～)，圣卢西亚诗人，于1930年出生在圣卢西亚的卡斯特里，当时圣卢西亚还是英属殖民地。他的祖父母均为非洲奴隶的后裔，父亲是波希米亚的一位小有名气的画家兼诗人，但在沃尔科特少年时便去世了。他的母亲是教师，也是业余剧作家。长大后，他的母亲把他送到当地卫理公会派教徒的一个学校上学。随后他曾在圣玛利大学和西印度的牙买加大学读过书，毕业后搬到特立尼达岛居住，并从此成为艺术评论家，后来曾在波士顿大学教授文学课程。

沃尔科特的文学生涯始于18岁时初次发表的25首诗，而真正的展露头角是他在1962年发表的诗集《在绿夜里》。他酷爱旅游，但他的作品中，本土气息同样很浓郁，其中经常融入非洲、亚洲及欧洲的风土人情与文化特色，使得他的诗作语言丰富，文化底蕴深厚，常常带给人奇异的美感。另有诗集《海葡萄》《海滩余生》，剧作《猴山之梦》、《最后的狂欢》等，他于1992年被瑞典文学院授予当年诺贝尔文学桂冠。

——牧场看守人翻译整理。

G.Z.D

就这么简单啊~~

dan_83_83

请问圣卢西亚是哪个国家？
在下孤陋寡闻没听说过。。。

G.Z.D

我也是~嘻嘻

haruka

他好像还是个导演呢．．．我对这个蛮感兴趣，有没有人介绍一下

haruka

原帖由 dan_83_83 于 2006-3-30 10:36 发表
请问圣卢西亚是哪个国家？
在下孤陋寡闻没听说过。。。

我只知道在中美洲．．．

mu

已经更新过了~~
翻译了一小段~

小香可

小传

Derek Walcott was born in 1930 in the town of Castries in Saint Lucia, one of the Windward Islands in the Lesser Antilles. The experience of growing up on the isolated volcanic island, an ex-British colony, has had a strong influence on Walcott's life and work. Both his grandmothers were said to have been the descendants of slaves. His father, a Bohemian watercolourist, died when Derek and his twin brother, Roderick, were only a few years old. His mother ran the town's Methodist school. After studying at St. Mary's College in his native island and at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica, Walcott moved in 1953 to Trinidad, where he has worked as theatre and art critic. At the age of 18, he made his debut with 25 Poems, but his breakthrough came with the collection of poems, In a Green Night (1962). In 1959, he founded the Trinidad Theatre Workshop which produced many of his early plays.

Walcott has been an assiduous traveller to other countries but has always, not least in his efforts to create an indigenous drama, felt himself deeply-rooted in Caribbean society with its cultural fusion of African, Asiatic and European elements. For many years, he has divided his time between Trinidad, where he has his home as a writer, and Boston University, where he teaches literature and creative writing.