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V.S. Naipaul

Books by V.S. Naipaul

Lived: 1932–2018

Nationality: British

Gender: male

Catalog: 13 books

Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (17 August 1932 – 11 August 2018) was a Trinidadian-born British writer of 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 published more than thirty books over fifty years. Naipaul's breakthrough novel *A House for Mr Biswas* was published in 1961. He won the Booker Prize in 1971 for his novel In a *Free State,* and the Jerusalem Prize in 1983. In 1990, he was awarded the Trinity Cross, Trinidad and Tobago's highest national honour. He received a knighthood in Britain in 1990, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. Some of his other works include *The Guerillas* (1975), *The Middle Passage* (1962) *A Bend in the River* (1979), *Among the Believers* (1981), *The Enigma of Arrival* (1987), *India: A Million Mutinies Now* (1990), *Beyond Belief* (1998) and *Half a Life* (2001).

  1. 1Cover of A House for Mr Biswas
  2. 2Cover of A Bend in the River
  3. 3Cover of Enigma of Arrival
  4. 4Cover of Guerrillas

    Guerrillas

    V.S. Naipaul · 1960 · 1 list

  5. 5Cover of In a Free State

    In a Free State

    V.S. Naipaul · 1971 · 1 list

  6. 6Cover of Magic Seeds

    Magic Seeds

    V.S. Naipaul · 2004 · 1 list

  7. 7Cover of Mr Stone and the Knights Companion
  8. 8Cover of A Curva do Rio
  9. 9Cover of An Area of Darkness: A Discovery of India
  10. 10Cover of Half a Life

    Half a Life

    V.S. Naipaul · 2001 · 0 lists

  11. 11Cover of India: A Million Mutinies Now
  12. 12Cover of India: A Wounded Civilization
  13. 13Cover of Miguel Street

    Miguel Street

    V.S. Naipaul · 1959 · 0 lists

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