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Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul [nb 1] FRAS TC (/ ˈ v ɪ d j ɑː d ər ˌ s uː r ə dʒ p r ə ˈ s ɑː d ˈ n aɪ p ɔː l, n aɪ ˈ p ɔː l /; 17 August 1932 – 11 August 2018) was a Trinidadian-born British writer of works of fiction and nonfiction in English. He is known for his comic early novels set in Trinidad, his bleaker novels ...
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Aug 13, 2024 · V.S. Naipaul was a Trinidadian writer of Indian descent who was known for his pessimistic novels set in developing countries. For these revelations of what the Swedish Academy called ‘suppressed histories,’ Naipaul won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Biographical. Naipaul is Truly a Nobel Man in a Free State. by David Pryce-Jones. The Nobel Prize for literature has gone to someone who deserves it. Like the great masters of the past, V.S. Naipaul tells stories which show us ourselves and the reality we live in. His use of language is as precise as it is beautiful.
Biography. Sir V (idiadhar) S (urajprasad) Naipaul was born in Chaguanas, Trinidad, on 17 August 1932, the eldest son of a second-generation Indian. He was educated at Queen's Royal College, Trinidad, and, after winning a government scholarship, in England at University College, Oxford. He worked briefly for the BBC as a writer and editor for ...
- Chaguanas, Trinidad
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Aug 11, 2018 · Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2001. Born: 17 August 1932, Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago. Died: 11 August 2018, London, United Kingdom. Residence at the time of the award: United Kingdom.
Aug 11, 2018 · V.S. Naipaul, the Nobel laureate who documented the migrations of peoples, the unraveling of the British Empire, the ironies of exile and the clash between belief and unbelief in more than a...
A Brief Biography of V. S. Naipaul David P. Lichtenstein '99, Brown University, Contributing Editor, Caribbean Web. Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naiapaul's prolific writing career spawned out of an inauspiscious birth in Chaguanas, Trinidad on August 17, 1932.
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