V. S. Naipaul (1932–2018)
Autor/a de A House for Mr Biswas
Sobre l'autor
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 mostra'n més 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) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Frederic Reglain
Obres de V. S. Naipaul
Oeuvres romanesques choisies : Dans un état libre, Guérilleros, A la courbe du fleuve, L'Enigme de… (2009) 4 exemplars
Sense títol 2 exemplars
A Curva do Rio 1 exemplars
Sense títol 1 exemplars
මිගුවල් වීදිය 1 exemplars
Mr. Stone and the Knoghts Companion 1 exemplars
La moitié d'une vie: inédit en Cahiers rouges, traduit de l'anglais par Suzanne Mayoux (Les… 1 exemplars
INDIA: A WOUNDED CIVILIZATION 1 exemplars
QYTETI BRI LUMIT 1 exemplars
THE MIMIC MAN 1 exemplars
An Area of Darkness - An Experience of India 1 exemplars
The Writer and the World 1 exemplars
A House for Mr. Biswas Glencoe Study Guide 1 exemplars
Blant de troende 1 exemplars
B. Wordsworth 1 exemplars
V ohybu řeky 1 exemplars
Bim 1 exemplars
In a Free State: One Out of Many; Tell Me Who to Kill; in a Free State (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) (2001) 1 exemplars
The painter of signs 1 exemplars
Fedeli a oltranza. Un viaggio tra i popoli convertiti all'Islam. Traduzione di Davide Carucci, Ubaldo Stecconi,… (2001) 1 exemplars
La fin du roman 1 exemplars
Semillas mágicas (Spanish Edition) 1 exemplars
The Middle Passage. Impressions of Five Societies-- British, French and Dutch-- in the West Indies and South America (1962) 1 exemplars
“One Out of Many” 1 exemplars
Rare Antique 1st Edition Among The Believers V.S. Naipaul Islam History Nobel Prize Muslim 1 exemplars
Half A Life 1 exemplars
Obres associades
The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories: Reissue (Oxford Books of Prose) (1999) — Col·laborador — 93 exemplars
Fotspår : noveller ur Sveriges radio P1:s serie Författarskap på fötter (2003) — Col·laborador — 5 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Naipaul, Vidiadhar Surajprasad
- Data de naixement
- 1932-08-17
- Data de defunció
- 2018-08-11
- Lloc d'enterrament
- Kensal Green Cemetery, London, England, UK
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- England
UK - Lloc de naixement
- Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago
- Lloc de defunció
- London, England, UK
- Llocs de residència
- London, England, UK
- Educació
- Oxford University (University College|BA|1953)
- Professions
- novelist
travel writer
essayist - Relacions
- Naipaul, Shiva (broer)
- Organitzacions
- Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1981)
Fellow, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Society of Authors (1956) - Premis i honors
- Booker Prize (1971)
Nobelprijs voor Literatuur (2001) - Agent
- Gillon Aitken Associates Ltd
William Loverd
Membres
Converses
British Author Challenge May 2021: Na'ima B. Robert & V. S. Naipaul a 75 Books Challenge for 2021 (desembre 2021)
May 2014: V. S. Naipaul a Monthly Author Reads (setembre 2018)
V. S. Naipaul 1932 - 2018 a 1001 Books to read before you die (agost 2018)
Ressenyes
Llistes
Five star books (1)
Favourite Books (2)
Elegant Prose (1)
Read This Next (1)
hopes (1)
Booker Prize (3)
A Novel Cure (3)
Allie's Wishlist (2)
1970s (2)
Africa (1)
Revolutions (1)
Big Jubilee List (1)
AP Lit (3)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 86
- També de
- 18
- Membres
- 23,128
- Popularitat
- #914
- Valoració
- 3.6
- Ressenyes
- 358
- ISBN
- 931
- Llengües
- 27
- Preferit
- 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.… (més)