V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He went to England on a scholarship in 1950. After four years at University College, Oxford, he began to write, and since then has followed no other profession. He has published more than twenty books of fiction and non-fiction, including Half a Life, A House for Mr Biswas, A Bend in the River and most recently The Masque of Africa, and a collection of letters, Between a Father and Son. In 2001 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He is the author of many works of fiction including, A House for Mr Biswas, A Bend in the River and The Mystic Masseur, and 10 of non-fiction including An Area of Darkness and India: A Wounded Civilization. He has won the Booker Prize, the John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, the WH Smith award and in 1993 was awarded the first David Cohen British Literature Award. Half A Life, was published in September 2001. Shortly afterwards he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He lives in Wiltshire.
This book investigates the Islamic revolution and tries to
understand the fundamentalist zeal that has gripped the young in
Iran and other Muslim countries . . . He is a modern master.
*Sunday Times*
Beautifully written and almost impossible to put down.
*Auberon Waugh*
The edgy exactitude of Naipaul’s writing is both effortlessly
classical and yet at the same time brilliantly contemporary, as
sharp and lucid as a spear of glass . . . He is inimitable, truly
great and truly deserving of the Nobel.
*Observer*
His level of perception is of the highest, and his prose has become
the perfect instrument for realizing those perceptions on the page.
His travel writing is perhaps the most important body of work of
its kind in the second half of the century.
*Martin Amis*
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