Author
V. S. Naipaul
August 17, 1932 – August 11, 2018 · Trinidad and Tobago
Writer, Novelist, Journalist, Essayist, Short story writer
Titles on list
1
Total weeks
3
Peak rank
#13
Biography
- Born
- August 17, 1932 · Chaguanas
- Died
- August 11, 2018 · London
- Nationality
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Gender
- Male
- Languages
- English
- Education
- University College, Oxford, Queen's Royal College
Awards & Honours
- 1961Somerset Maugham Award
- 1964Hawthornden Prize
- 1971Booker Prize
- 1983Jerusalem Prize
- 1990Knight Bachelor
- 1993International Nonino Prize
- 2001Nobel Prize in Literature
- John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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