V. S. Naipaul

Also known as Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, V.S. Naipaul, Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul

Trinidadian-British writer (1932–2018)

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V. S. Naipaul, born Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul on August 17, 1932, in Chaguanas, was a writer, novelist, journalist, and essayist. He held citizenship in Trinidad and Tobago and the United Kingdom. His notable works include *A House for Mr Biswas*, *In a Free State*, *A Bend in the River*, and *The Mystic Masseur*. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Booker Prize, and the Jerusalem Prize.

Naipaul was educated at University College, Oxford, and worked at Wesleyan University. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Society of Literature. His professional career spanned from 1957 until his death on August 11, 2018, in London. He was also a journalist and essayist who wrote in English.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1932-08-17
Died: 2018-08-11
Works: 331

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Germany
Active from: 1685-03-21
Active to: 1750-07-28

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Discography

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Listeners: 5
Total plays: 28

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Fluid overload is associated with impaired oxygenation and morbidity in critically ill children*
· 2012 · cited 355x
Menu Price Endings that Communicate Value and Quality
· 2001 · cited 146x
Delivery of Cancer Care in Ontario, Canada, During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic
· 2022 · cited 78x
Effect of price discount frames and levels on consumers' perceptions in low‐end service industries
· 2010 · cited 73x
REGIONAL DESTINATION MARKETING: A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH
· 2009 · cited 51x

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Quotes

“A writer is in the end not his books, but his myth. And that myth is in the keeping of others.”
“Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.”
“One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas — and you have to work through it all.”
“One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.”
“To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn't know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up.”
“What is happening in India is a mighty creative process.... But every other Indian knows precisely what is happening. Deep down he knows that a larger response is emerging to their historical humiliation. … It is not enough to abuse these youths or use that fashionable word from Europe, 'fascism'… There is a big, historical development going on in India. Wise men should understand it and ensure that it does not remain in the hands of fanatics.”

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Literature2001
“for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories”

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Encyclopedic overview

Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul FRAS TC (/ˈvɪdjɑːdər ˌsuːrədʒprəˈsɑːd ˈnaɪpɔːl, naɪˈpɔːl/; 17 August 1932 – 11 August 2018) was a Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer renowned for his 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.

Naipaul's breakthrough novel A House for Mr Biswas was published in 1961. Naipaul won the Booker Prize in 1971 for his novel In a Free State. He won the Jerusalem Prize in 1983, and was awarded the Trinity Cross, Trinidad and Tobago's highest national honour, in 1990. He received a knighthood in 1990, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001.

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