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Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul 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 of ...
Mar 28, 2024 · V.S. Naipaul (born August 17, 1932, Trinidad—died August 11, 2018, London, England) was a Trinidadian writer of Indian descent 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.
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.
Aug 11, 2018 · Perhaps best known for his novel A Bend in the River, V.S. Naipaul was a controversial figure in the literary world. The Nobel Prize-winning writer died on Saturday at his London home, the...
Aug 12, 2018 · Kenneth Ramchand. Sun 12 Aug 2018 07.55 EDT. The greatest literary virtue of the Trinidad -born writer VS Naipaul, who has died aged 85, was instant readability. He constructed clear,...
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...
Aug 24, 2018 · Memories of V. S. Naipaul. By Paul Theroux. August 24, 2018. What every aspiring writer yearns for is the approval of an older established writer; to be told “Yes, you have it, just persevere...
