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Walcott Says Laureate Week Transcends Personalities
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Walcott Says Laureate Week Transcends Personalities
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He told an audience gathered for excerpts of his plays at the National Cultural Centre, that Nobel Laureate week transcends personalities and provides a rare opportunity for St. Lucia to display its many achievements.
Several new and innovative concepts have been factored into this year’s observance of Nobel Laureate Week A spokesman for the 2000 committee chaired by Her Excellency the Governor General, Dame Pearlette Louisy, says many of the activities have been well received by the public. |
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Thursday,
January 27, 2000 - As St. Lucians prepare to close off
activities in observance of Nobel Laureate Week, Literature prizewinner the
Honourable Derek Walcott says the celebrations are truly not about him.
"My
gratitude is not for what is being said about me, but for my seeing what
continues to flower very strongly," Walcott said. He continued, "I thought that
this year’s celebration of Nobel Laureate Week would have been something jaded,
but it turned out to be astonishing. It was not astonishing because it was about
me, but it was astonishing in terms of remembering the talents, and geniuses
that I have grown up with."