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Sir W. Arthur Lewis was born on the 23rd of January 1915 on St. Lucia. He died on June 15, 1991 in Bridgetown, Barbados and was buried in the grounds of the St Lucian community college named in his honor.
Derek Alton Walcott, OCC (born January 23, 1930) is a Saint Lucian poet, playwright and writer who was awarded the Prize for Literature in 1992. He is still alive now and his most recent Award was the T.S Eliot prize award for White Egrets.