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V. S. Naipaul

V.S. NAIPAUL was born in Trinidad in 1932. He came to England on a scholarship in 1950. He spent four years at University College, Oxford, and began to write, in London, in 1954. He pursued no other profession.
 
His novels include A House for Mr Biswas, The Mimic Men, Guerrillas, A Bend in the River, and The Enigma of Arrival. In 1971 he was awarded the Booker Prize for In a Free State. His works of nonfiction, equally acclaimed, include Among the Believers, Beyond Belief, The Masque of Africa, and a trio of books about India: An Area of Darkness, India: A Wounded Civilization and India: A Million Mutinies Now.
 
In 1990, V.S. Naipaul received a knighthood for services to literature; in 1993, he was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. He died in 2018.
A Bend in the River
The Masque of Africa
Collected Short Fiction of V. S. Naipaul
India: A Million Mutinies Now
A Writer's People
Magic Seeds
Literary Occasions
The Writer and the World
India
The Loss of El Dorado
Half a Life
Miguel Street
An Area of Darkness
The Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book
In a Free State
The Middle Passage
The Mystic Masseur
The Mimic Men
A House for Mr. Biswas
Between Father and Son
Beyond Belief
A Way in the World
Guerrillas
A Turn in the South
A Bend in the River
The Enigma of Arrival
Among the Believers

Books

A Bend in the River
The Masque of Africa
Collected Short Fiction of V. S. Naipaul
India: A Million Mutinies Now
A Writer's People
Magic Seeds
Literary Occasions
The Writer and the World
India
The Loss of El Dorado
Half a Life
Miguel Street
An Area of Darkness
The Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book
In a Free State
The Middle Passage
The Mystic Masseur
The Mimic Men
A House for Mr. Biswas
Between Father and Son
Beyond Belief
A Way in the World
Guerrillas
A Turn in the South
A Bend in the River
The Enigma of Arrival
Among the Believers

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