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 correspondence, 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 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 20 books of fiction and non-fiction, including Half a Life, A House for Mr Biswas, A Bend in the River, and a collection of letters, Between Father and Son. In 2001 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Essential reading . . . it offers the insights and observations –
on literature, history and cultural sensibility – of an honest and
truly global thinker.
*Evening Standard*
The greatest writer now living in Britain. His courage in seeing
and telling the truth represents a level of high seriousness that
has all but vanished.
*Sunday Times*
Naipaul has a sharp visual sense . . . And then there is his
chiselled prose, elegant and economical: who, now living, writes as
well as he?
*Financial Times*
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