Naipaul

[ nahy-pawl ]

noun

1. V(idiadhar) S(urajprasad), 1932–2018, English novelist and nonfiction writer, born in Trinidad.

Naipaul

/ naɪˈpɔːl /

noun

1. NaipaulSir V(idiadhar) S(urajprasad)1932MTrinidadianWRITING: novelist Sir V ( idiadhar ) S ( urajprasad ). born 1932, Trinidadian novelist of Indian descent, living in Britain. His works include A House for Mr Biswas (1961), In a Free State (1971), which won the Booker Prize, A Bend in the River (1979), The Enigma of Arrival (1987), and Beyond Belief (1998): Nobel prize for literature 2001

Example Sentences

The city was described by V.S. Naipaul in his 1979 novel A Bend in the River as “a place where the future has come and gone.”

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Nobel prizewinning novelist V.S. Naipaul has slammed her for the sin of sentimentality.

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Cranky old V.S. Naipaul is such an unpleasant bore that Paul Theroux even wrote a book about his lousy, misogynistic ways.

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Of course Naipaul is wrong; many women write as well as he does including Jane Austen.

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Boyd notes, however, that “there is a new problem for avid readers of Naipaul—an inescapable one.”

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