Winner of the Booker Prize in 1971 and nominated for the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018.
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 non-fiction, 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 lived with his wife Nadira and cat Augustus in Wiltshire, and died in 2018.
A book of such lucid complexity and such genuine insight, so deft
and deep, that it somehow manages to agitate, charm, amuse and
excuse the reader all at the same pitch of experience
*The Times*
Naipaul’s travel writing is perhaps the most important body of work
of its kind in the second half of the century
*Martin Amis*
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