V. S. Naipaul (1932–2018)
Autor de A house for Mr Biswas
Sobre El Autor
Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was born of Indian ancestry in Chaguanas, Trinidad on August 17, 1932. He was educated at University College, Oxford and lived in Great Britain since 1950. From 1954 to 1956, he edited a radio program on literature for the British Broadcasting Corporation's Caribbean mostrar más Service. His first novel, The Mystic Masseur, was published in 1957. His other novels included A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, Guerrillas, and Half a Life. In a Free State won the Booker Prize in 1971. He started writing nonfiction in the 1960s. His first nonfiction book, The Middle Passage, was published in 1962. His other nonfiction works included An Area of Darkness, Among the Believers, Beyond Belief, and A Turn in the South. He was knighted in 1990 and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. He died on August 11, 2018 at the age of 85. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: Frederic Reglain
Obras de V. S. Naipaul
Oeuvres romanesques choisies : Dans un état libre, Guérilleros, A la courbe du fleuve, L'Enigme de… (2009) 4 copias
La moitié d'une vie: inédit en Cahiers rouges, traduit de l'anglais par Suzanne Mayoux (Les… 1 copia
මිගුවල් වීදිය 1 copia
The Writer and the World 1 copia
Sin título 1 copia
QYTETI BRI LUMIT 1 copia
B. Wordsworth 1 copia
The painter of signs 1 copia
Bim 1 copia
In a Free State: One Out of Many; Tell Me Who to Kill; in a Free State (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) (2001) 1 copia
Fedeli a oltranza. Un viaggio tra i popoli convertiti all'Islam. Traduzione di Davide Carucci, Ubaldo Stecconi,… (2001) 1 copia
V ohybu řeky 1 copia
La fin du roman 1 copia
“One Out of Many” 1 copia
Blant de troende 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories: Reissue (Oxford Books of Prose) (1999) — Contribuidor — 93 copias, 1 reseña
Antaeus No. 61, Autumn 1988 - Journals, Notebooks & Diaries (1988) — Contribuidor — 35 copias, 2 reseñas
Fotspår : noveller ur Sveriges radio P1:s serie Författarskap på fötter (2003) — Contribuidor — 5 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Naipaul, Vidiadhar Surajprasad
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1932-08-17
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2018-08-11
- Lugar de sepultura
- Kensal Green Cemetery, London, England, UK
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- England
UK - Lugar de nacimiento
- Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- London, England, UK
- Lugares de residencia
- London, England, UK
- Educación
- Oxford University (University College|BA|1953)
- Ocupaciones
- novelist
travel writer
essayist - Relaciones
- Naipaul, Shiva (broer)
- Organizaciones
- Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1981)
Fellow, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Society of Authors (1956) - Premios y honores
- Booker Prize (1971)
Nobelprijs voor Literatuur (2001) - Agente
- Gillon Aitken Associates Ltd
William Loverd
Miembros
Debates
British Author Challenge May 2021: Na'ima B. Robert & V. S. Naipaul en 75 Books Challenge for 2021 (diciembre 2021)
May 2014: V. S. Naipaul en Monthly Author Reads (Septiembre 2018)
V. S. Naipaul 1932 - 2018 en 1001 Books to read before you die (agosto 2018)
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Booker Prize (3)
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Allie's Wishlist (2)
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Favourite Books (2)
AP Lit (3)
Africa (1)
Revolutions (1)
Big Jubilee List (1)
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- Obras
- 79
- También por
- 18
- Miembros
- 23,526
- Popularidad
- #892
- Valoración
- 3.6
- Reseñas
- 360
- ISBNs
- 936
- Idiomas
- 27
- Favorito
- 79