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Each year in the capital, Castries, throngs of people jam the streets in colourful costumes
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Nobel Laureate Week
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Derek Walcott
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How about this for a fact: per capita, St
Lucia has more Nobel laureates than any
other country. Derek Walcott won
the Literature prize in 1992, while Arthur
Lewis won for Economics in 1979. The
islanders are enormously proud of this
achievement and a week is set aside every
January to celebrate all things cultural.
Kicking off on January 23 – the birth date
of both Walcott and Lewis – the
celebration consists of two major lectures,
panel discussions, plays, poetry, drama
and music. School children are also
heavily involved. The week attracts visitors
from all over the Caribbean, and often
entices luminaries from the world of
literature, including poet Seamus Heaney
and the late, great playwright Arthur
Miller. If you’re after a bit of culture in the
Caribbean, make sure you head for St
Lucia in January.
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