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V. S. Naipaul

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V. S. Naipaul (Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul) , 1932-, English author, b. Chaguanas, Trinidad; grad. University College, Oxford, 1953. Naipul, whose family is descended from Indian Brahmins, has lived in England since 1950. A master of English prose style, he is known for his penetrating analyses of alienation and exile. In fiction and essays marked by stylistic virtuosity and psychological insight, he often focuses on his childhood and his travels beyond Trinidad. Writing with increasing irony and pessimism, he has often bleakly detailed the dual problems of the Third World: the oppressions... Read more

V. S. Naipaul
Encyclopedia of World Biography V. S. Naipaul V. S. Naipaul (born 1932) was ... of the author's own father defeated ... return base, Naipaul began to travel ... comic tone. In a Free State (1971 ... Darkness" context. Naipaul himself explicitly ... the novelist's purpose in all ... William ... Read more

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Britannica Concise Encyclopedia ... Trinidad as indentured servants, Naipaul left Trinidad in 1950 to ... 1961), about an immigrant's attempt to assert his identity ... postcolonial nations include In a Free State (1971, Booker Prize ... nonfictional studies of India. Naipaul was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001. Sir ... Read more

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