V.S. Naipaul, a Writer of Many Contradictions and Obvious …
Web12 aug. 2018 · V.S. Naipaul, the Nobel laureate who died at 85 on Saturday, had so many gifts as a writer — suppleness, wit, an unsparing eye for detail — that he could seemingly do whatever he wanted. What ...
VS Naipaul obituary | VS Naipaul | The Guardian
Web12 aug. 2018 · Last modified on Mon 27 Aug 2018 01.35 EDT. The greatest literary virtue of the Trinidad -born writer VS Naipaul, who has died aged 85, was instant readability. He constructed clear, irreducible ...
V.S. Naipaul (Author of A House for Mr Biswas)
Webedit data. Naipaul was born and raised in Trinidad, to which his grandfathers had emigrated from India as indentured servants. He is known for the wistfully comic early novels of Trinidad, the bleaker novels of a …
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Web9 jul. 2022 · But when V.S. Naipaul died in 2018 the work had already been done. Naipaul was best known as a snob, always keen to dismiss modern England or lament the dark failure of Africa. Derek Walcott, who once admired his fiction as much as Naipaul did Walcott’s early poems, composed a satire called ‘The Mongoose’: ‘Each studied phrase …
Memories of V. S. Naipaul | The New Yorker
Web24 aug. 2018 · Ten years passed in silence. At the Hay Festival, I was sitting with Ian McEwan when Naipaul appeared at the door of a big tent, Nadira and her daughter supporting him on each arm as he moved ...
From the archives (1997) | V.S. Naipaul: India shouldn't have …
Web16 aug. 2022 · V.S. Naipaul. New Delhi, UPDATED: Aug 16, 2022 17:51 IST. I think that it would be wrong to ask whether 50 years of India's Independence are an achievement or a failure. It would be better to see things as evolving. It's not an either - or question. My idea of the history of India is slightly contrary to the Indian idea. India is a country that, in the …
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Books by V.S. Naipaul (Author of A House for Mr Biswas) - Goodreads
WebV.S. Naipaul has 129 books on Goodreads with 218404 ratings. V.S. Naipaul’s most popular book is A House for Mr Biswas.
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WebSir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (Chaguanas (Trinidad en Tobago), 17 augustus 1932 - 11 augustus 2018, Londen), beter bekend als V.S. Naipaul, is een Brits schrijver. Hij werd geboren in Trinidad. Zijn ouders kwamen vanuit India naar Trinidad om daar te werken. Na zijn geboorte woonde hij bij zijn moeders familie, en leerde pas op zesjarige leeftijd zijn …
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