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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 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    Seepersad Naipaul (/ˈnaɪpɔːl, naɪˈpɔːl/; 1906–1953) was a Trinidadian writer. He was the father of V. S. Naipaul and Shiva Naipaul and married into the...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 (1979). Naipaul draws...
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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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  • 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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  • best books he had ever read, according to his daughter, Mary Soames. V. S. Naipaul remarked: "No better account of the penetration of the Indian mind by...
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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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    sacred cow, as illustrated in a comment about the novelist V. S. Naipaul: "V. S. Naipaul ... has the ability to distinguish the death of an ordinary...
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  • Kailash Satyarthi, Peace, 2014 Venkatraman Ramakrishnan*, Chemistry, 2009 V. S. Naipaul*, Literature, 2001 Amartya Sen, Economics, 1998 Subramanyan Chandrasekhar*...
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  • years, The Paris Review published works by Jack Kerouac, Philip Larkin, V. S. Naipaul, Philip Roth, Terry Southern, Adrienne Rich, Italo Calvino, Samuel Beckett...
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  • 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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    Capildeo family (category Naipaul family)
    Tewari (née Naipaul) (1929 – 2009) V. S. Naipaul (1932 – 2018) = Patricia Ann Naipaul (née Hale) † V. S. Naipaul (1932 – 2018) = Nadira Naipaul (née Alvi)...
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  • and Palestinian identity – as well as literary criticism – e.g. on V. S. Naipaul, Graham Greene, Julian Barnes, and Kazuo Ishiguro among others. The...
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    Coward, Lawrence, Kingsley Amis, Graham Greene, Christopher Isherwood, V. S. Naipaul and George Orwell. His urbane spy, Ashenden, influenced the stories...
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