Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul FRAS TC (/ˈvɪdjɑːdər ˌsuːrədʒprəˈsɑːd ˈnaɪpɔːl, naɪˈpɔːl/; 17 August 1932 – 11 August 2018) was a Trinidadian-born British...
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Nadira, Lady Naipaul (born Nadira Khannum Alvi; 1953), is a Pakistani journalist and the widow of novelist Sir V. S. Naipaul. She was born in Mombasa...
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Indo-Trinidadian and British novelist and journalist. Shiva Naipaul was the younger brother of novelist V. S. Naipaul. He went first to Queen's Royal College and St...
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A Bend in the River (category Novels by V. S. Naipaul)
Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul. The novel, telling the story of Salim, a merchant in post-colonial mid-20th century Africa, is one of Naipaul's best known works...
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Seepersad Naipaul (/ˈnaɪpɔːl, naɪˈpɔːl/; 1906–1953) was a Trinidadian writer. He was the father of writers V. S. Naipaul, Shiva Naipaul and Savi Naipaul Akal...
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A House for Mr Biswas (category Novels by V. S. Naipaul)
A House for Mr Biswas is a 1961 novel by V. S. Naipaul, significant as Naipaul's first work to achieve acclaim worldwide. It is the story of Mohun Biswas...
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An Area of Darkness (category Books by V. S. Naipaul)
written by V. S. Naipaul in 1964. It is a travelogue detailing Naipaul's trip through India in the early sixties. It was the first of Naipaul's acclaimed...
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Laureate V. S. Naipaul in his memoir Sir Vidia's Shadow (1998) contrasts sharply with his earlier, admiring portrait of the same author in V. S. Naipaul: An...
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Literary feud (section Paul Theroux and V. S. Naipaul)
conflict. Paul Theroux and V. S. Naipaul met in 1966 in Kampala, Uganda. Their friendship cooled when Theroux criticized Naipaul's work. Later, Theroux took...
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Guerrillas (novel) (category Novels by V. S. Naipaul)
Guerrillas is a 1975 novel by V. S. Naipaul. The book is set on an unnamed, remote Caribbean island populated by a mix of ethnicities, but dominated by...
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Miguel Street (category Short story collections by V. S. Naipaul)
Miguel Street is a collection of linked short stories by V. S. Naipaul set in wartime Trinidad and Tobago. The stories draw on the author's childhood...
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Among the Believers (category Books by V. S. Naipaul)
laureate V. S. Naipaul. Published in 1981, the book describes a six-month journey across the Asian continent after the Iranian Revolution. V.S. Naipaul explores...
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One out of Many (story) (redirect from One out of Many (V.S. Naipaul ))
unconventionally formatted novel entitled In a Free State, written by V. S. Naipaul and originally published by André Deutsch in 1971. The protagonist,...
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The Mimic Men (category Novels by V. S. Naipaul)
is a novel by V. S. Naipaul, first published by Andre Deutsch in the UK in 1967. Not long after finishing A Flag on the Island, Naipaul began work on...
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India: A Million Mutinies Now (category Books by V. S. Naipaul)
India: A Million Mutinies Now is a nonfiction book by V. S. Naipaul published in 1990. It is a travelogue written during the author's sojourn in his ancestral...
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In a Free State (category Short stories by V. S. Naipaul)
In a Free State is a novel by V. S. Naipaul published in 1971 by Andre Deutsch. It won that year's Booker Prize. The plot consists of a framing narrative...
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Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples (category Books by V. S. Naipaul)
by V. S. Naipaul published by Vintage Books in 1998. It was written as a sequel to Naipaul's Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey (1981). Naipaul draws...
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wife Droapatie (née Capildeo), and the sister of V. S. Naipaul and Shiva Naipaul. Savitri (Savi) Naipaul Akal was born at the Lion House in Chaguanas, Trinidad...
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Indo-Trinidadian writer V. S. Naipaul India: A Wounded Civilization, a 1977 book, prequel to the 1990 work, about the history of India by V. S. Naipaul India: From...
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Wilson, Bill and Chelsea Clinton, Neil Gorsuch, Stephen Hawking, C. S. Lewis, V. S. Naipaul, Robert Reich, William Beveridge, Bob Hawke, Robert Cecil, and...
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political or economic reasons. These writers include Nobel Prize winners V. S. Naipaul and Derek Walcott as well as the novelists Edwidge Danticat and Sam...
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is a 2001 Merchant Ivory film based on the novel of the same name by V. S. Naipaul. It is one of relatively few films directed by Ismail Merchant, who...
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List of Indian writers (section V)
Nanjil Nadan Amrit Lal Nagar Kiran Nagarkar Vijay Nahar Sarojini Naidu V. S. Naipaul Anita Nair M. T. Vasudevan Nair Gopi Chand Narang R. K. Narayan Fuzail...
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India: A Wounded Civilization (category Books by V. S. Naipaul)
(1977), by V. S. Naipaul, is the second book of his "India" trilogy, after An Area of Darkness, and before India: A Million Mutinies Now. Naipaul came to...
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substantiation to be found. India: A Wounded Civilization, a book by V. S. Naipaul, is also oriented around The Emergency. The Plunge, an English-language...
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Trinidadian-born British writer Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (1932–2018), commonly known as V. S. Naipaul, "for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible...
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Bertrand Russell who had won the Nobel Prize in 1950. Octavio Paz, V. S. Naipaul, J. M. Coetzee, and Mario Vargas Llosa all won the Jerusalem Prize prior...
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The Middle Passage (book) (category Books by V. S. Naipaul)
essay and travelogue by V. S. Naipaul. It is his first book-length work of non-fiction. The book covers a year-long trip Naipaul took through Trinidad,...
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The Mystic Masseur (novel) (category Novels by V. S. Naipaul)
The Mystic Masseur is a comic novel by V. S. Naipaul. It is set in colonial Trinidad and was published in London in 1957. The novel is about a frustrated...
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1957 Abdulrazak Gurnah*, Literature, 2021 14th Dalai Lama, Peace, 1989 V. S. Naipaul*, Literature, 2001 Moungi Bawendi, born in France, Chemistry, 2023 Tunisian...
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