Naipaul

American

[nahy-pawl] / ˈnaɪˌpɔl /

noun

V(idiadhar) S(urajprasad), 1932–2018, English novelist and nonfiction writer, born in Trinidad.

Naipaul British

/ naɪˈpɔːl /

noun

Sir V ( idiadhar ) S ( urajprasad ). born 1932, Trinidadian novelist of Indian descent, living in Britain. His works include A House for Mr Biswas (1961), In a Free State (1971), which won the Booker Prize, A Bend in the River (1979), The Enigma of Arrival (1987), and Beyond Belief (1998): Nobel prize for literature 2001

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Pritchett called Naipaul—would probably have been confounded by the InterContinental Hotel in Kabul.

From The Wall Street Journal

Naipaul warned against looking without seeing.

From The Wall Street Journal

Naipaul; spy novels by John le Carré, essays by Nora Ephron, science thrillers by Michael Crichton and Caro’s nonfiction epics.

From Seattle Times

Naipaul, Patrick French tried to make sense of his subject’s colossal ambition, a striving for greatness that led Naipaul to abandon his homeland of Trinidad for the flourishing literary world of mid-century England.

From Washington Post

Mr. French, who had met the author just a few times before embarking on the project, was asked to write the book around the time Naipaul won the 2001 Nobel Prize in literature.

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