V. S. Naipaul

1932–2018

4 standalone books

Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (17 August 1932 – 11 August 2018) was a Trinidadian-born British writer who wrote works of fiction and nonfiction in English. He published more than thirty books over fifty years. His breakthrough novel, A House for Mr Biswas, was published in 1961. He won the Booker Prize in 1971 for In a Free State and the Jerusalem Prize in 1983. In 1990, he was awarded the Trinity Cross, Trinidad and Tobago's highest national honour, and received a knighthood in Britain. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. His other works include The Guerillas (1975), The Middle Passage (1962), A Bend in the River (1979), Among the Believers (1981), The Enigma of Arrival (1987), India: A Million Mutinies Now (1990), Beyond Belief (1998), and Half a Life (2001).

Born

1932