V. S. Naipaul
1932-08-17 – 2018-08-11
327 works in the book catalog catalog
Biography
Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (17 August 1932 – 11 August 2018) 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 published more than thirty books over fifty years. Naipaul's breakthrough novel *A House for Mr Biswas* was published in 1961. He won the Booker Prize in 1971 for his novel In a *Free State,* and the Jerusalem Prize in 1983. In 1990, he was awarded the Trinity Cross, Trinidad and Tobago's highest national honour. He received a knighthood in Britain in 1990, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. Some of his other works include *The Guerillas* (1975), *The Middle Passage* (1962) *A Bend in the River* (1979), *Among the Believers* (1981), *The Enigma of Arrival* (1987), *India: A Million Mutinies Now* (1990), *Beyond Belief* (1998) and *Half a Life* (2001).
Also published as: Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
Most-read books
A House for Mr. Biswas
3.3 · 1961 · 91 want to read
Miguel Street
4.8 · 1959 · 80 want to read
A Bend in the River
3.1 · 1979 · 50 want to read
The Mystic Masseur
3.5 · 1957 · 30 want to read
The mimic men
4.7 · 1967 · 27 want to read
India
3.5 · 1977 · 26 want to read
India a Wounded Civilization
1979 · 26 want to read
In a Free State
3.7 · 1971 · 21 want to read
Prentice Hall Literature - Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes - The British Tradition
3 · 2002 · 16 want to read
Half a life
3 · 2001 · 12 want to read
Beyond belief
5 · 1998 · 13 want to read
The enigma of arrival
1 · 1987 · 12 want to read
An area of darkness
1964 · 11 want to read
Among the believers
3 · 1981 · 9 want to read
The middle passage
1962 · 9 want to read
Prentice Hall Literature--The British Tradition
2000 · 10 want to read
A Way in the World
4 · 1994 · 6 want to read
India
1997 · 8 want to read
El Regreso De Eva Peron Y Otras Cronicas
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El Regreso De Eva Peron Y Otras Cronicas
1983 · 5 want to read
Guerrillas
5 · 1975 · 4 want to read
The suffrage of Elvira
1958 · 7 want to read
The return of Eva Perón, with The killings in Trinidad
1980 · 7 want to read
A flag on the island
3 · 1967 · 4 want to read
A House for Mr. Biswas with Related Readings
1961 · 5 want to read