Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, TC (ojoibi 17 August 1932), to gbajuo bi V. S. Naipaul ati nigba miran bi Sir Vidia Naipaul, je olukowe ara Trinidad to je wa lati India to gbajumo fun awon iwe aroso re to dalori awon orile-ede tiundagbasoke. Fun awon ifihan ohun ti Akademi Swedin pe ni “awon itan adepamo,” Naipaul gba won Ebun Nobel fun Litireso ni 2001.[1] He has been called "a master of modern English prose."[2] O ti gba opolopo ebun alamookomooka, ninu won ni John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (1958), the Somerset Maugham Award (1960), the Hawthornden Prize (1964), the W. H. Smith Literary Award (1968), the Booker Prize (1971), ati David Cohen Prize fun ipa igbesiaye ninu Imookomooka Britani (1993).

V.S. Naipaul
Iṣẹ́Novelist, essayist
Ọmọ orílẹ̀-èdèTrinidadian
GenreNovel
Literary movementRealism, Postcolonialism
Notable worksA House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, The Enigma of Arrival, In A Free State
Notable awardsBooker Prize
1971
Nobel Prize in Literature
2001

Ni 2008, The Times fi Naipaul sipo keje lori atojo won fun "Awon olukowe Britani 50 titobijulo lati 1945".[3]


  1. "The Nobel Prize in Literature 2001". Nobel Prize. 
  2. 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."
  3. "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". The Times (London). 5 January 2008. Archived from the original on 25 April 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110425050801/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article3127837.ece. Retrieved 1 February 2010.