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Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul [nb 1] FRAS TC ( / ˈvɪdjɑːdər ˌsuːrədʒprəˈsɑːd ˈnaɪpɔːl, naɪˈpɔːl /; 17 August 1932 – 11 August 2018) was a Trinidadian-born British writer of works of fiction and nonfiction in English.
May 18, 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.
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V. S. Naipaul was knighted in 1989. He was awarded the David Cohen British Literature Prize by the Arts Council of England in 1993 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001. He holds honorary doctorates from Cambridge University and Columbia University in New York, and honorary degrees from the universities of Cambridge, London and Oxford.
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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...
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Aug 12, 2018 · V.S. Naipaul, the Trinidad-born Nobel laureate whose precise and lyrical writing made him one of the world's most admired writers, died at his London home, his family said. He was 85.
Interview with the 2001 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Sir V. S. Naipaul, by Horace Engdahl, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, 12 December 2001. Sir Vidia talks about how he learnt to be a writer; how his writing developed (4:47); ‘A House for Mr. Biswas’ (6:20); ‘The Loss of El Dorado’ (10:41); his style of writing (17:43 ...
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