'''Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul''', [[Trinity Cross|TC]] (ojoibi 17 August 1932), commonlyto knowngbajuo asbi '''V. S. Naipaul''' andati sometimesnigba asmiran bi '''Sir Vidia Naipaul''', isje aolukowe ara [[TrinidadianTrinidad]] writerto ofje wa lati [[India]]ndescentto knowngbajumo forfun hisawon novelsiwe setaroso inre to dalori awon [[developing countries|orile-ede tiundagbasoke]]. ForFun theseawon revelationsifihan ofohun what theti [[Swedish Academy|Akademi Swedin]] calledpe “suppressedni histories“awon itan ademole,” Naipaul gba won the[[Ebun Nobel]] fun [[Nobel Prize for Literature|Litireso]] inni 2001.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Nobel Prize in Literature 2001 |url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2001/ |work=[[Nobel Prize]]}}</ref> He has been called "a master of modern English prose."<ref>[[J. M. Coetzee|Coetzee, J. M]] (2001), ''New York Review of Books''. Quote: "Naipaul is a master of English prose, and the prose of ''Half a Life'' is as clean and cold as a knife."</ref> He has been awarded numerous literary prizes including the [[John Llewellyn Rhys Prize]] (1958), the [[Somerset Maugham Award]] (1960), the [[Hawthornden Prize]] (1964), the [[W. H. Smith Literary Award]] (1968), the [[Man Booker Prize|Booker Prize]] (1971), and the [[David Cohen Prize]] for a lifetime's achievement in [[British Literature]] (1993).
In 2008, ''[[The Times]]'' ranked Naipaul seventh on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".<ref>{{cite news | date= 5 January 2008 |url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article3127837.ece | title = The 50 greatest British writers since 1945 | work = The Times |accessdate=1 February 2010 | location=London}}</ref> je olukowe to gba [[Ebun Nobel]] ninu [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Litireso]].
