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.
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His novels include┬аA House for Mr Biswas,┬аThe Mimic Men,┬аGuerrillas,┬аA Bend in the River, and┬аThe Enigma of Arrival. In 1971 he was awarded the Booker Prize for┬аIn a Free State. His works of nonfiction, equally acclaimed, include┬аAmong the Believers,┬аBeyond Belief,┬аThe Masque of Africa, and a trio of books about India:┬аAn Area of Darkness,┬аIndia: A Wounded Civilization┬аand┬аIndia: A Million Mutinies Now.
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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 died in 2018.