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Nobel Prize-winning poet and playwright Derek Walcott, who was celebrated for the lush, evocative poetry he wrote about his native Caribbean, died on Friday at the age of 87.
According to a statement from his son, Walcott died at home in St. Lucia, the Caribbean island nation where the poet was born. A spokesman for his publisher, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, told Reuters that Walcott had been ill and was recently in the hospital.
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