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Naipaul, V.S.

(1932- ) British writer. Born in Trinidad, he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2001 "for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories."

Biography

Read a brief biography of the Caribbean novelist and some information about his brother, Shiva, who is also a writer.

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