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    V. S. Naipaul

    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.
     
    His novels include A House for Mr Biswas, The Mimic Men, Guerrillas, A Bend in the River, and The Enigma of Arrival. In 1971 he was awarded the Booker Prize for In a Free State. His works of nonfiction, equally acclaimed, include Among the Believers, Beyond Belief, The Masque of Africa, and a trio of books about India: An Area of Darkness, India: A Wounded Civilization and India: A Million Mutinies Now.
     
    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.
    The Masque of Africa
    The Masque of Africa
    Glimpses of African Belief
    V. S. Naipaul
    9780307454997
    $16.00 US
    Paperback
    Oct 04, 2011
    Vintage
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    The Loss of El Dorado
    The Loss of El Dorado
    A Colonial History
    V. S. Naipaul
    9781400030767
    $19.00 US
    Paperback
    Apr 08, 2003
    Vintage
    Grades AP/IB
    The Middle Passage
    The Middle Passage
    The Caribbean Revisited
    V. S. Naipaul
    9780375708343
    $16.00 US
    Paperback
    Jan 08, 2002
    Vintage
    Grades AP/IB
    A Bend in the River
    A Bend in the River
    V. S. Naipaul
    9780679722021
    $18.00 US
    Paperback
    Mar 13, 1989
    Vintage
    Grades AP/IB

    Books

    The Masque of Africa
    The Masque of Africa
    Glimpses of African Belief
    V. S. Naipaul
    9780307454997
    $16.00 US
    Paperback
    Oct 04, 2011
    Vintage
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    The Loss of El Dorado
    The Loss of El Dorado
    A Colonial History
    V. S. Naipaul
    9781400030767
    $19.00 US
    Paperback
    Apr 08, 2003
    Vintage
    Grades AP/IB
    The Middle Passage
    The Middle Passage
    The Caribbean Revisited
    V. S. Naipaul
    9780375708343
    $16.00 US
    Paperback
    Jan 08, 2002
    Vintage
    Grades AP/IB
    A Bend in the River
    A Bend in the River
    V. S. Naipaul
    9780679722021
    $18.00 US
    Paperback
    Mar 13, 1989
    Vintage
    Grades AP/IB

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