V. S. Naipaul

Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (17 August 1932 – 11 August 2018) was a Trinidad-born British writer renowned for his works of fiction and nonfiction in English. He is known for his comic early novels set in Trinidad, his bleaker novels of alienation in the wider world, and his vigilant chronicles of life and travels. He wrote in prose that was widely admired, but his views sometimes aroused controversy. He published more than thirty books over fifty years.

Naipaul's breakthrough novel A House for Mr Biswas was published in 1961. Naipaul won the Booker Prize in 1971 for his novel In a Free State. He won the Jerusalem Prize in 1983, and was awarded the Trinity Cross, Trinidad and Tobago's highest national honour, in 1990. He received a knighthood in 1990, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001.

Notable works: A House for Mr Biswas, In a Free State, A Bend in the River, The Enigma of Arrival, The Mystic Masseur Awards: Nobel Prize in Literature, John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, Booker Prize, Jerusalem Prize, International Nonino Prize, Knight Bachelor, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Somerset Maugham Award, Hawthornden Prize Education: University College, Oxford, Queen's Royal College

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