![]() ![]() In 1954 he married Fay Moyston, and they later had a son, Peter, but the marriage ended in divorce in 1959. in 1953 in English, French, and Latin, while on a British government scholarship at the University College of the West Indies in Mona, Jamaica, and he then studied for one more year in the Department of Education. Roderick, along with his brother, was to become a well-known playwright. Derek Walcott published his first poem at fourteen and his first book at eighteen ( 25 Poems, 1948) his first play, Henri Christophe, was staged in 1950. Their mother was a school-teacher and encouraged their early education and love for reading she was also involved in a community cultural group and got her sons involved in local theater. Warwick Walcott was a civil servant, poet, and visual artist who died at thirty-five, when Derek and his twin brother, Roderick, were only one year old. ![]() Derek Alton Walcott was born on 23 January 1930 in Castries, Saint Lucia, to Warwick and Alix Walcott. ![]()
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