The Most Famous
WRITERS from Saint Lucia
This page contains a list of the greatest Saint Lucian Writers. The pantheon dataset contains 5,755 Writers, 1 of which were born in Saint Lucia. This makes Saint Lucia the birth place of the 125th most number of Writers behind Benin and Tanzania.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Saint Lucian Writers of all time. This list of famous Saint Lucian Writers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Derek Walcott (1930 - 2017)
With an HPI of 60.82, Derek Walcott is the most famous Saint Lucian Writer. His biography has been translated into 80 different languages on wikipedia.
Sir Derek Alton Walcott OM (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works include the Homeric epic poem Omeros (1990), which many critics view "as Walcott's major achievement." In addition to winning the Nobel Prize, Walcott received many literary awards over the course of his career, including an Obie Award in 1971 for his play Dream on Monkey Mountain, a MacArthur Foundation "genius" award, a Royal Society of Literature Award, the Queen's Medal for Poetry, the inaugural OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, the 2010 T. S. Eliot Prize for his book of poetry White Egrets and the Griffin Trust For Excellence in Poetry Lifetime Recognition Award in 2015.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as writers born between 1930 and 1930. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased writers include Derek Walcott.
