V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He went to England on a scholarship in 1950. After four years at University College, Oxford, he began to write, and since then has followed no other profession. He has published more than twenty books of fiction and non-fiction, including Half a Life, A House for Mr Biswas, A Bend in the River and most recently The Masque of Africa, and a collection of correspondence, Letters Between a Father and Son. In 2001 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He came to England on
a scholarship in 1950. He spent four years at University College,
Oxford, and began to write, in London, in 1954. He pursued no other
profession.
His novels include A House for Mr Biswas, The Mimic Men,
Guerrillas, A Bend in the River, and The Enigma of Arrival. In 1971
he was awarded the Booker Prize for In a Free State. His works of
nonfiction, equally acclaimed, include Among the Believers, Beyond
Belief, The Masque of Africa, and a trio of books about India: An
Area of Darkness, India: A Wounded Civilization and India: A
Million Mutinies Now.
In 1990, V.S. Naipaul received a knighthood for services to
literature; in 1993, he was the first recipient of the David Cohen
British Literature Prize. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature
in 2001. He lived with his wife Nadira and cat Augustus in
Wiltshire, and died in 2018.
Naipaul has fashioned a work of intense imaginative force. It is a
haunting creation, rich with incident and human bafflement, played
out in an immense detail of landscape rendered with a poignant
brilliance.
*Elizabeth Hardwick*
Always a master of fictional landscape, Naipaul here shows, in his
variety of human examples and in his search for underlying social
causes, a Tolstoyan spirit.
*John Updike*
Brilliant and terrifying
*Observer*
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