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Naipaul

[nahy-pawl]

noun

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



Naipaul

/ naɪˈpɔːl /

noun

  1. 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

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Pritchett called Naipaul—would probably have been confounded by the InterContinental Hotel in Kabul.

Naipaul warned against looking without seeing.

Naipaul; spy novels by John le Carré, essays by Nora Ephron, science thrillers by Michael Crichton and Caro’s nonfiction epics.

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During interviews at his home in the Wiltshire countryside, Naipaul could be astonishingly frank.

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Mr. French, who had met the author just a few times before embarking on the project, was asked to write the book around the time Naipaul won the 2001 Nobel Prize in literature.

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