V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932 and emigrated to England in 1950, when he won a scholarship to University College, Oxford. He is the author of many novels, including A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, and In a Free State, which won the Booker Prize. He has also written several nonfiction works based on his travels, including India: A Million Mutinies Now and Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples. He was knighted in 1990 and in 1993 was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize.
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The Writer and India
March 4, 1999
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Reading & Writing
February 18, 1999
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Indonesia: The Man of the Moment
June 11, 1998
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A Way In the World
May 12, 1994
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The End of Peronism?
February 13, 1992
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Argentina: Living With Cruelty
January 30, 1992
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A Handful of Dust: Return to Guiana
April 11, 1991
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Our Universal Civilization
January 31, 1991
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The Shadow of the Guru
December 20, 1990
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A Turn in Atlanta
January 19, 1989
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Rednecks
December 22, 1988
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On Being a Writer
April 23, 1987
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The Ceremony of Farewell
February 12, 1987
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Among the Republicans
October 25, 1984
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Writing ‘A House for Mr. Biswas’
November 24, 1983
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A Note on a Borrowing by Conrad
December 16, 1982
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Tehran Winter
October 8, 1981
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Argentine Terror: A Memoir
October 11, 1979
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The Flight from the Fire
May 3, 1979
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Indian Art and Its Illusions
March 22, 1979
Much Maligned Monsters: The History of European Reactions to Indian Art by Partha Mitter
The Classical Tradition in Rajput Painting by Pratapaditya Pal
Coomaraswamy Vol.3: His Life and Work by Roger Lipsey. (Reviewed by Philip Rawson The New York Review, February 22, 1979)
Imperial Mughal Painting by Stuart Cary Welch
Indian Painting by Toby Falk, by Robert Skelton
Room for Wonder: Indian Painting During the British Period, 1760-1880 by Stuart Cary Welch
A Historical Atlas of South Asia
edited by Joseph E. Schwartzberg
Indian Medieval Sculpture by Aschwin de Lippe
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India: Renaissance or Continuity?
January 20, 1977
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India: Paradise Lost
October 28, 1976
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India: Synthesis and Mimicry
September 16, 1976
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India: A Defect of Vision
August 5, 1976
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India: New Claim on the Land
June 24, 1976
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Bombay: The Skyscrapers and the Chawls
June 10, 1976
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The Wounds of India
May 13, 1976
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India: A Wounded Civilization
April 29, 1976
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A New King for the Congo
June 26, 1975
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The Secret Agent
November 28, 1974
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Conrad’s Darkness
October 17, 1974
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Argentina: The Brothels Behind the Graveyard
September 19, 1974
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A Country Dying on Its Feet
April 4, 1974
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Comprehending Borges
October 19, 1972
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The Corpse at the Iron Gate
August 10, 1972
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Without a Dog’s Chance
May 18, 1972
After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie by Jean Rhys
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The Circus at Luxor Epilogue to a Novel
November 4, 1971
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Power to the Caribbean People
September 3, 1970
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St. Kitts: Papa and the Power Set
May 8, 1969
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Anguilla: The Shipwrecked 6000
April 24, 1969
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Black Man’s Burden
October 31, 1963
Jamaican Blood and Victorian Conscience by Bernard Semmel