The Nobel Prize in Literature 2001
Awarded on: 2001-10-11
"for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories"
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
Born: 1932-08-17 in Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago
Gender: male
Field: Trinidadian-British writer (1932–2018)
Biography
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was a Trinidadian-born British writer of works of fiction and nonfiction in English. He is known for his comic early novels set in Trinidad, his bleaker novels of alienation in the wider world, and his vigilant chronicles of life and travels. He wrote in prose that was widely admired, but his views sometimes aroused controversy. He published more than thirty books over fifty years.