Search results
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 ...
May 18, 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.
Learn about the life and works of V. S. Naipaul, the Trinidad-born writer who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2001. Explore his themes of culture, history, identity, and freedom in his novels and non-fiction books.
Aug 11, 2018 · Learn about the life and work of V. S. Naipaul, the British author of Trinidadian origin who won the Nobel Prize for his novels and travel writing. His themes include colonialism, post-colonialism, identity and alienation in a multicultural world.
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...
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 · He is known for the wistfully comic early novels of Trinidad, the bleaker novels of a wider world remade by the passage of peoples, and the vigilant chronicles of his life and travels, all written in characteristic, widely admired, prose. At 17, he won a Trinidad Government scholarship to study abroad.
