called it "one of Mr. Walcott's finest poetic works." The book also won the WH Smith Literary Award in 1991. In 1992, Walcott was also awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the Nobel committee member who presented the award, Professor Kjell Espmark, singled out Walcott's most recent achievement at the time, Omeros, recognizing the book as a "major work". Walcott painted the cover for the book, which depicts some of his main characters at sea together in a boat. In 2004, the critic Hilton Als of The New Yorker called the book "Walcott's masterpiece" and characterized the poem as "the perfect marriage of Walcott’s classicism and his nativism". Stage adaptation Walcott has adapted his poem for performance at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare's Globe, London. Starring Saint Lucian actor Joseph Marcell and Jade Anouka, it was presented in May and June 2014, and was reprised in October 2015. See also Caribbean literature Caribbean poetry Epic poetry References Other sources Omeros Chart: A guide to Derek Walcott's Omeros Podcast of Derek Walcott discussing Omeros on the BBC's World Book Club In the Shadows of Divine Perfection By Lance Callahan A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry: Derek Walcott: Omeros by Bruce Woodcock Ambition and Anxiety by Line Henriksen 1990 poems Saint Lucian literature Epic poems in English Verse novels Poetry based on the Iliad Modern adaptations of the Iliad