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Over the course of his astonishing 50-year career, V S Naipaul's writing has been characterised by a commitment to truth that gives his work a unique luminosity and brilliance.
In A Writer's People, he brings unmatched clarity and rich experience to an exploration of the ways we think, see and feel. Naipaul writes about the classical world - what we have retained from it, what we have forgotten - and the more recent past. Figures as diverse as Mahatma Gandhi, Derek Walcott and Gustave Flaubert come under his compassionate scrutiny, as do his own early years in Trinidad, the silences in his family history and the roles played by Anthony Powell and Francis Wyndham in his first encounters with literary culture. V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He is the author of many works of fiction including, "A House for Mr Biswas", "A Bend in the River" and "The Mystic Masseur", and 10 of non-fiction including "An Area of Darkness" and "India: A Wounded Civilization". He has won the Booker Prize, the John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, the WH Smith award and in 1993 was awarded the first David Cohen British Literature Award. "Half A Life", was published in September 2001. Shortly afterwards he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He lives in Wiltshire.
In A Writer's People, he brings unmatched clarity and rich experience to an exploration of the ways we think, see and feel. Naipaul writes about the classical world - what we have retained from it, what we have forgotten - and the more recent past. Figures as diverse as Mahatma Gandhi, Derek Walcott and Gustave Flaubert come under his compassionate scrutiny, as do his own early years in Trinidad, the silences in his family history and the roles played by Anthony Powell and Francis Wyndham in his first encounters with literary culture. V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He is the author of many works of fiction including, "A House for Mr Biswas", "A Bend in the River" and "The Mystic Masseur", and 10 of non-fiction including "An Area of Darkness" and "India: A Wounded Civilization". He has won the Booker Prize, the John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, the WH Smith award and in 1993 was awarded the first David Cohen British Literature Award. "Half A Life", was published in September 2001. Shortly afterwards he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He lives in Wiltshire.