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V. S. Naipaul
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V. S. Naipaul

Author · born August 17, 1932 · died 2018

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Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was a Trinidad-born British writer renowned for his works of fiction and nonfiction in English.

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  1. ~29Received the Somerset Maugham Award1961
  2. ~39Received the Booker Prize1971
  3. ~51Received the Jerusalem Prize1983
  4. ~58Named Knight Bachelor1990
  5. ~69Received the Nobel Prize in Literature2001

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