Derek Walcott (d. 23 Ocak 1930 Castries, St. Lucia; ö. 17 Mart 2017, Cap Estate, Saint Lucia) Saint Lucialı şair, yazar ve ressam. Eserlerinde Afrika kökenlerini vurgulamakla birlikte başta Bertolt Brecht olmak üzere Avrupalı yazarların da etkisi gözlenir. 1992'de Nobel Edebiyat Ödülü'nü aldı.
Eserleri
Şiirleri
(1948) 25 Poems
(1949) Epitaph for the Young: Xll Cantos
(1951) Poems
(1962) In a Green Night: Poems 1948–60
(1964) Selected Poems
(1965) The Castaway and Other Poems
(1969) The Gulf and Other Poems
(1973) Another Life
(1976) Sea Grapes
(1979) The Star-Apple Kingdom
(1981) Selected Poetry
(1981) The Fortunate Traveller
(1983) The Caribbean Poetry of Derek Walcott and the Art of Romare Bearden
(1984) Midsummer
(1986) Collected Poems, 1948-1984
(1987) The Arkansas Testament
(1990) Omeros
(1997) The Bounty
(2000) Tiepolo's Hound
(2004) The Prodigal
(2014) The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948–2013
Oyunları
(1970) Dream on Monkey Mountain
(1970) Ti-Jean and His Brothers
(1980) Pantomime
(1997) The Capeman
Nobel Edebiyat Ödülü sahipleri
1901-1925
Sully Prudhomme (1901) Theodor Mommsen (1902) Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1903) Frédéric Mistral / José Echegaray (1904) Henryk Sienkiewicz (1905) Giosuè Carducci (1906) Rudyard Kipling (1907) Rudolf Eucken (1908) Selma Lagerlöf (1909) Paul Heyse (1910) Maurice Maeterlinck (1911) Gerhart Hauptmann (1912) Rabindranath Tagore (1913) Romain Rolland (1915) Verner von Heidenstam (1916) Karl Gjellerup / Henrik Pontoppidan (1917) Carl Spitteler (1919) Knut Hamsun (1920) Anatole France (1921) Jacinto Benavente (1922) W. B. Yeats (1923) Władysław Reymont (1924) George Bernard Shaw (1925)
1926-1950
Grazia Deledda (1926) Henri Bergson (1927) Sigrid Undset (1928) Thomas Mann (1929) Sinclair Lewis (1930) Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1931) John Galsworthy (1932) Ivan Bunin (1933) Luigi Pirandello (1934) Eugene O'Neill (1936) Roger Martin du Gard (1937) Pearl S. Buck (1938) Frans Eemil Sillanpää (1939) Johannes V. Jensen (1944) Gabriela Mistral (1945) Hermann Hesse (1946) André Gide (1947) T. S. Eliot (1948) William Faulkner (1949) Bertrand Russell (1950)
1951-1975
Pär Lagerkvist (1951) François Mauriac (1952) Winston Churchill (1953) Ernest Hemingway (1954) Halldór Laxness (1955) Juan Ramón Jiménez (1956) Albert Camus (1957) Boris Pasternak (1958) Salvatore Quasimodo (1959) Saint-John Perse (1960) Ivo Andrić (1961) John Steinbeck (1962) Giorgos Seferis (1963) Jean-Paul Sartre (ödülü reddetti) (1964) Mikhail Sholokhov (1965) Shmuel Yosef Agnon / Nelly Sachs (1966) Miguel Ángel Asturias (1967) Yasunari Kawabata (1968) Samuel Beckett (1969) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1970) Pablo Neruda (1971) Heinrich Böll (1972) Patrick White (1973) Eyvind Johnson / Harry Martinson (1974) Eugenio Montale (1975)
1976-2000
Saul Bellow (1976) Vicente Aleixandre (1977) Isaac Bashevis Singer (1978) Odysseas Elytis (1979) Czesław Miłosz (1980) Elias Canetti (1981) Gabriel García Márquez (1982) William Golding (1983) Jaroslav Seifert (1984) Claude Simon (1985) Wole Soyinka (1986) Joseph Brodsky (1987) Necib Mahfuz (1988) Camilo José Cela (1989) Octavio Paz (1990) Nadine Gordimer (1991) Derek Walcott (1992) Toni Morrison (1993) Kenzaburo Oe (1994) Seamus Heaney (1995) Wisława Szymborska (1996) Dario Fo (1997) José Saramago (1998) Günter Grass (1999) Gao Xingjian (2000)
2001
ve sonrası
V. S. Naipaul (2001) Imre Kertész (2002) J. M. Coetzee (2003) Elfriede Jelinek (2004) Harold Pinter (2005) Orhan Pamuk (2006) Doris Lessing (2007) J. M. G. Le Clézio (2008) Herta Müller (2009) Mario Vargas Llosa (2010) Tomas Tranströmer (2011) Mo Yan (2012) Alice Munro (2013) Patrick Modiano (2014) Svetlana Aleksiyeviç (2015) Bob Dylan (2016)