V.S. Naipaul

V.S. Naipaul í 2016 .

Vidiadhar Surajpasad Naipaul (føddur 17. august 1932, deyður 11. august 2018 var bretskur rithøvundur av vestindiskum uppruna.

V. S. Naipaul var ættaður úr Trinidad, men síðan fimmtiárini búleikaðist hann i Stórabretlandi. Í 2001 vann hann Nobel heiðurslønin í bókmenti .

Útgivið

Fagrar bókmentir

• The Mystic Masseur (1957)
• The Suffrage of Elvira (1958)
• Miguel Street (1959)
• A House for Mr Biswas (1961)
• Mr. Stone and the Knights Companion (1963)
• A Flag on the Island (1967)
• The Mimic Men (1967)
• In a Free State (1971)
• Guerillas (1975)
• A Bend in the River (1979)
• Finding the Centre (1984)
• The Enigma of Arrival (1987)
• A Way in the World (1994)
• Half a Life (2001)
• Magic Seeds (2004)

Aðrar bókmentir

• The Middle Passage: Impressions of Five Societies - British, French and Dutch in the West Indies and South America (1962)
• An Area of Darkness (1964)
• The Loss of El Dorado (1969)
• The Overcrowded Barracoon and Other Articles (1972)
• India: A Wounded Civilization (1977)
• A Congo Diary (1980)
• The Return of Eva Perón and the Killings in Trinidad (1980)
• Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey (1981)
• Finding the Centre (1984)
• A Turn in the South (1989)
• India: A Million Mutinies Now (1990)
• Homeless by Choice (1992, saman við R. Jhabvala og S. Rushdie)
• Bombay (1994, saman við Raghubir Singh)
• Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions among the Converted Peoples (1998)
• Between Father and Son: Family Letters (1999)
• Literary Occasions: Essays (2003, av Pankaj Mishra)
• A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling (2007)
• The Masque of Africa (2010)

Slóðir úteftir

• V. S. Naipaul, nobelprize.org