St. Lucia: Walcott Withdraws

Written byJanine Mendes-Franco
Posted 13 May 2009 17 years ago

Repeating Islands reports that St. Lucian Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott “has withdrawn his candidacy for the post of Oxford Professor of Poetry citing a smear campaign designed to sully his reputation.”

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