V. S. Naipaul - Nobel Prize in Literature — 2001
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V. S. Naipaul

Prize
Nobel Prize in Literature — 2001
for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories
Citizenship
Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago United Kingdom United Kingdom
Languages
English
date of birth
8/17/1932
place of birth
Chaguanas
date of death
8/11/2018
place of death
London
Lived
85 years

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notable work
  • A Bend in the River
  • In a Free State
  • A House for Mr Biswas
  • The Enigma of Arrival
  • The Mystic Masseur
member of
  • Royal Society of Literature
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
educated at
  • University College, Oxford
  • Queen's Royal College
field of work
  • literature
employer
  • Wesleyan University
occupation
  • journalist
  • novelist
  • essayist
  • short story writer
  • writer
  • travel writer
work location
  • Oxford
  • London
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