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    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 Kenyan-born British Pakistani journalist and the widow of novelist Sir V. S. Naipaul. She was...
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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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    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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    Laureate VSNaipaul in his memoir Sir Vidia's Shadow (1998) contrasts sharply with his earlier, admiring portrait of the same author in VSNaipaul: An...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • via Project MUSE. Sprinker, Michael (May 15, 1992). "London Calling: V. S. Naipaul, Postcolonial Mandarin (review)". Minnesota Review. 38 (1): 109–111...
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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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  • his love for Indian art and how he started his collection, the writer V. S. Naipaul credited Deighton. "I met Len Deighton, the thriller writer, at dinner...
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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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  • Khorana*, Physiology or Medicine, 1968 C. V. Raman, Physics, 1930 Rabindranath Tagore, Literature, 1913 V. S. Naipaul**, Literature, 2001 Mother Teresa, born...
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  • 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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  • Jon McGregor Rohinton Mistry Timothy Mo Brian Moore Andrew O'Hagan V. S. Naipaul Richard Powers Zadie Smith Muriel Spark Graham Swift Sarah Waters 2...
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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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  • 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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    towards the Piarco airport. St. James was home to Nobel Prize-winner V. S. Naipaul, who lived on one of the streets prior to migrating to the United Kingdom...
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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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    Wilson, Bill and Chelsea Clinton, Neil Gorsuch, Stephen Hawking, C. S. Lewis, V. S. Naipaul, Robert Reich, William Beveridge, Bob Hawke, Robert Cecil, Tom...
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  • What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul is a biography of the Nobel Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul by Patrick French. It was published in...
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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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    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 Enigma of Arrival (category Novels by V. S. Naipaul)
    Arrival: A Novel in Five Sections is a 1987 novel by Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul. Mostly an autobiography, the book is composed of five sections that...
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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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