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Naipaul, Vidiadhar Surajprasad, Sir(V. S. Naipaul)
Born: 1932 AD
Currently alive, at 75 years of age.
Nationality: Unknown
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Currently alive, at 75 years of age.
Nationality: Unknown
Categories: None
1932 - Born on the 17th of August in Chaguanas,Trinidad.
1960 - He made attempts over the decades to identify his ancestral village in India.
1971 - He became the first Person of Indian origin to win a Booker Prize for his book In a Free State.
1998 - He published the Paul Theroux a controversial Memior.
2001 - He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- His works praised by the Swedish Academy for having a united perceptive narrative.
1960 - He made attempts over the decades to identify his ancestral village in India.
1971 - He became the first Person of Indian origin to win a Booker Prize for his book In a Free State.
1998 - He published the Paul Theroux a controversial Memior.
2001 - He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- His works praised by the Swedish Academy for having a united perceptive narrative.
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- "Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision."
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