1992年10月8日,拉美诗人兼剧作家德里克·沃尔科特(Derek Walcott)荣获了本年度诺贝尔文学奖。沃尔科特生于西印度群岛的圣卢西亚岛(1979年脱离英属独立),现任美国波士顿大学文学教授,今年62岁。他声称自己“绝对是加勒比海的作家”。对于离开故乡、定居美国,他曾作过解释:“在自己的土地上诗不能赖以维生,那里出版商太少。”他认为他的得奖表明“西印度群岛的文学作品得到国际间的肯定”。 On October 8, 1992, Latin American poet and playwright Derek Walcott won this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature. Walcott was born on the island of Saint Lucia in the West Indies (liberated from British independence in 1979) and is now a professor of literature at Boston University and is 62 years old. He claims he is “definitely an author of the Caribbean.” As he left his native country and settled in the United States, he explained: “Poetry can not survive on his own land, there are too few publishers.” He believes his winners indicate that “the West Indies literary work is internationally Sure. ”