V. S. Naipaul (Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, Kt., TC) (born August 17, 1932 in Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago of Indo-Trinidadian descent), is a British novelist and essayist who, although controversial, is widely considered to be one of the masters of modern English prose.[1] 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 Booker Prize (1971), and the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in British Literature (1993). V. S. Naipaul was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001, the centenary year of the award.[2]
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