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In what year did Derek Walcott win the Nobel Prize in Literature, despite a sexual assault allegation from a decade earlier resurfacing in public discussion?
Answer
1992
Derek Walcott, the Saint Lucian poet and playwright, received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992 for a body of work described by the committee as illuminating Caribbean history through 'great luminosity.'
💡 Did you know?
Derek Walcott won the Nobel Prize for Literature while facing a sexual assault allegation in 1982; the controversy resurfaced decades later, dividing literary institutions.
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- 1986
- 1998
- 2001
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- poetry
- caribbean-literature
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