V. S. Naipaul (1932–2018)
Autor(a) de A House for Mr Biswas
About the Author
Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was born of Indian ancestry in Chaguanas, Trinidad on August 17, 1932. He was educated at University College, Oxford and lived in Great Britain since 1950. From 1954 to 1956, he edited a radio program on literature for the British Broadcasting Corporation's Caribbean mostrar mais Service. His first novel, The Mystic Masseur, was published in 1957. His other novels included A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, Guerrillas, and Half a Life. In a Free State won the Booker Prize in 1971. He started writing nonfiction in the 1960s. His first nonfiction book, The Middle Passage, was published in 1962. His other nonfiction works included An Area of Darkness, Among the Believers, Beyond Belief, and A Turn in the South. He was knighted in 1990 and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. He died on August 11, 2018 at the age of 85. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras por V. S. Naipaul
Oeuvres romanesques choisies : Dans un état libre, Guérilleros, A la courbe du fleuve, L'Enigme de… (2009) 4 exemplares
Sem título 2 exemplares
A Curva do Rio 1 exemplar
Sem título 1 exemplar
මිගුවල් වීදිය 1 exemplar
Mr. Stone and the Knoghts Companion 1 exemplar
La moitié d'une vie: inédit en Cahiers rouges, traduit de l'anglais par Suzanne Mayoux (Les… 1 exemplar
INDIA: A WOUNDED CIVILIZATION 1 exemplar
QYTETI BRI LUMIT 1 exemplar
THE MIMIC MAN 1 exemplar
An Area of Darkness - An Experience of India 1 exemplar
The Writer and the World 1 exemplar
A House for Mr. Biswas Glencoe Study Guide 1 exemplar
Blant de troende 1 exemplar
B. Wordsworth 1 exemplar
V ohybu řeky 1 exemplar
Bim 1 exemplar
In a Free State: One Out of Many; Tell Me Who to Kill; in a Free State (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) (2001) 1 exemplar
The painter of signs 1 exemplar
Fedeli a oltranza. Un viaggio tra i popoli convertiti all'Islam. Traduzione di Davide Carucci, Ubaldo Stecconi,… (2001) 1 exemplar
La fin du roman 1 exemplar
Semillas mágicas (Spanish Edition) 1 exemplar
The Middle Passage. Impressions of Five Societies-- British, French and Dutch-- in the West Indies and South America (1962) 1 exemplar
“One Out of Many” 1 exemplar
Rare Antique 1st Edition Among The Believers V.S. Naipaul Islam History Nobel Prize Muslim 1 exemplar
Half A Life 1 exemplar
Associated Works
The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories: Reissue (Oxford Books of Prose) (1999) — Contribuidor — 93 exemplares
Fotspår : noveller ur Sveriges radio P1:s serie Författarskap på fötter (2003) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Naipaul, Vidiadhar Surajprasad
- Data de nascimento
- 1932-08-17
- Data de falecimento
- 2018-08-11
- Localização do túmulo
- Kensal Green Cemetery, London, England, UK
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- England
UK - Local de nascimento
- Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago
- Local de falecimento
- London, England, UK
- Locais de residência
- London, England, UK
- Educação
- Oxford University (University College|BA|1953)
- Ocupações
- novelist
travel writer
essayist - Relações
- Naipaul, Shiva (broer)
- Organizações
- Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1981)
Fellow, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Society of Authors (1956) - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Booker Prize (1971)
Nobelprijs voor Literatuur (2001) - Agente
- Gillon Aitken Associates Ltd
William Loverd
Membros
Discussions
British Author Challenge May 2021: Na'ima B. Robert & V. S. Naipaul em 75 Books Challenge for 2021 (Dezembro 2021)
May 2014: V. S. Naipaul em Monthly Author Reads (Setembro 2018)
V. S. Naipaul 1932 - 2018 em 1001 Books to read before you die (Agosto 2018)
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Revolutions (1)
Big Jubilee List (1)
AP Lit (3)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 86
- Also by
- 18
- Membros
- 23,129
- Popularidade
- #914
- Avaliação
- 3.6
- Críticas
- 358
- ISBN
- 931
- Línguas
- 27
- Marcado como favorito
- 79
At the end the writer, as he sets down his memoir, sees a personal resolution in withdrawal from political and familial ambitions.
"It gives me joy to find that in so doing I have also fulfilled the fourfold division of life prescribed by our Aryan ancestors. I have been student, house-holder and man of affairs, recluse...
Yet I feel that in this time (his life to date) I have cleared the decks, as it were, and prepared myself for fresh action."
And so he did. This was Naipaul's second novel. Huge success for him was to follow.… (mais)