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Background
- Born in
- Castries
- Educated at
- University of the West IndiesUniversity of London
- Awards
- 🏆 Heinemann Award🏆 honorary doctorate of the University of Alcala🏆 star on Playwrights' Sidewalk🏆 Nobel Prize in Literature🏆 T. S. Eliot Prize
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Trending topics shown first"Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe … I don’t think there is any other function for the poet or the scientist in the human tribe but the astonishment of the soul."
"I never thought I would see the day when America would become so self-centered and hypocritical. I mean if democracy considers liberal to be a term of abuse, then we should be terrified. A liberal is …"
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Timeline
1930
Born
Birth2017
Died
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