Word: walcott
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...arts, culture, and the life of the mind,” is usually presented to an individual once a year, although the Institute sometimes awards it to groups of people. In 2005, the Medal was given to Nobel laureates Nadine Gordimer, Wole Soyinka, Toni Morrison, and Derek Walcott upon their visit to Harvard...
Gordimer, Walcott, and Morrison each offered his or her own words of homage before reading selections from their own work...
...Walcott as well presented a revision of a received European theme: the Cyclops episode from an adaptation of the Odyssey he wrote for the Royal Shakespeare Company...
...Walcott was introduced by Jamaica Kincaid, Visiting Lecturer on African American Studies and on English and American Literature and Language, who spoke of the impact Walcott has had on her own work as a writer...
...true that law cannot make a poet but a poet can make laws, so it is true that people cannot make a poet but a poet can make a people,” Kincaid remarked. “Derek Walcott made a people. He made...