Derek Walcott (1930-2017) was born in Castries, the capital of the former British colony of Saint Lucia, an island in the Lesser Antilles. The grandson of slaves and the son of a British painter who died when he was one year old, this mix of cultures must be added to the fact that his family was Protestant in a community where Catholicism predominated. He studied at the University College of the West Indies and founded the Trinidad Theatre Workshop. Author of numerous plays and poetry books, his works translated into Spanish include Islands, Another Life, Midsummer, The Arkansas Testament, The Voice of Twilight, Plenty and White Egrets, winner of the 2010 T. S. Eliot Prize. Omeros is considered his masterpiece and was awarded the WH Smith Literary Award. In 1992 he was awarded the Nobel Prize.