Derek Walcott (1930–2017) was born in Castries, Saint Lucia, and is regarded as the preeminent poet of the Caribbean literary tradition. His poetry engages the complex legacies of colonialism, creole culture, and the fractured history of the African diaspora. His epic poem Omeros (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990) reimagines Homer's Iliad in a Caribbean setting and is his most celebrated achievement. He was also a major playwright and cofounder of the Trinidad Theatre Workshop. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992, with the Swedish Academy citing his dedication to his multicultural inheritance. His collections include Another Life (1973) and The Arkansas Testament (1987).