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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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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He said he agreed to the project on two conditions: that Naipaul sit for extensive interviews, and that he grant access to restricted materials from his archives at the University of Tulsa, which included the author’s journals and those of his first wife, Pat.

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Over the next five years, Naipaul allowed him to proceed without interference, and ultimately “requested no changes” to the completed manuscript.

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