V. S. Naipaul (1932–2018)
Autor(a) de A House for Mr Biswas
About the Author
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 mais 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
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Obras de V. S. Naipaul
Oeuvres romanesques choisies : Dans un état libre, Guérilleros, A la courbe du fleuve, L'Enigme de… (2009) 4 cópias
Sem título 2 cópias
A Curva do Rio 1 exemplar(es)
Sem título 1 exemplar(es)
මිගුවල් වීදිය 1 exemplar(es)
Rare V S Naipaul - 1st edit/ 1st print A House for Mr Biswas First Edition 1961 [Hardcover] Naipaul, V.S [Hardcover]… 1 exemplar(es)
Du 602: Ungezählte Hände. Frauen und Textilarbeit in Indien 1 exemplar(es)
Mr. Stone and the Knoghts Companion 1 exemplar(es)
La moitié d'une vie: inédit en Cahiers rouges, traduit de l'anglais par Suzanne Mayoux (Les… 1 exemplar(es)
INDIA: A WOUNDED CIVILIZATION 1 exemplar(es)
QYTETI BRI LUMIT 1 exemplar(es)
THE MIMIC MAN 1 exemplar(es)
An Area of Darkness - An Experience of India 1 exemplar(es)
The Writer and the World 1 exemplar(es)
A House for Mr. Biswas Glencoe Study Guide 1 exemplar(es)
Blant de troende 1 exemplar(es)
B. Wordsworth 1 exemplar(es)
The Return of Eva Perón with the Killings in Trinidad 1 exemplar(es)
magazine: "The Independant Magazine" 17, September, 1988 1 exemplar(es)
V ohybu řeky 1 exemplar(es)
The Night Watchman's Occurrence Book {short story} 1 exemplar(es)
magazine: "The Indepandant Magazine" 10 September, 1988 1 exemplar(es)
Bim 1 exemplar(es)
In a Free State: One Out of Many; Tell Me Who to Kill; in a Free State (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) (2001) 1 exemplar(es)
Le regard et l'écrit : Traduit de l'anglais par François Rosso et Bernard Turle… (2013) 1 exemplar(es)
The painter of signs 1 exemplar(es)
Fedeli a oltranza. Un viaggio tra i popoli convertiti all'Islam. Traduzione di Davide Carucci, Ubaldo Stecconi,… (2001) 1 exemplar(es)
La fin du roman 1 exemplar(es)
Semillas mágicas (Spanish Edition) 1 exemplar(es)
The Return of Eva Peton: With Killings in Trinidad 1 exemplar(es)
The Middle Passage. Impressions of Five Societies-- British, French and Dutch-- in the West Indies and South America (1962) 1 exemplar(es)
“One Out of Many” 1 exemplar(es)
Rare Antique 1st Edition Among The Believers V.S. Naipaul Islam History Nobel Prize Muslim 1 exemplar(es)
Le regard et l'écrit: Traduit de l'anglais par François Rosso et Bernard Turle (Littérature Etrangère) (French… 1 exemplar(es)
Half A Life 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories: Reissue (Oxford Books of Prose) (1999) — Contribuinte — 93 cópias
Fotspår : noveller ur Sveriges radio P1:s serie Författarskap på fötter (2003) — Contribuinte — 5 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome de batismo
- Naipaul, Vidiadhar Surajprasad
- Data de nascimento
- 1932-08-17
- Data de falecimento
- 2018-08-11
- Local de enterro
- Kensal Green Cemetery, London, England, UK
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- England
UK - Local de nascimento
- Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago
- Local de falecimento
- London, England, UK
- Locais de residência
- London, England, UK
- Educação
- Oxford University (University College|BA|1953)
- Ocupação
- novelist
travel writer
essayist - Relacionamentos
- Naipaul, Shiva (broer)
- Organizações
- Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1981)
Fellow, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Society of Authors (1956) - Premiações
- Booker Prize (1971)
Nobelprijs voor Literatuur (2001) - Agente
- Gillon Aitken Associates Ltd
William Loverd
Membros
Discussions
British Author Challenge May 2021: Na'ima B. Robert & V. S. Naipaul em 75 Books Challenge for 2021 (Dezembro 2021)
May 2014: V. S. Naipaul em Monthly Author Reads (Setembro 2018)
V. S. Naipaul 1932 - 2018 em 1001 Books to read before you die (Agosto 2018)
Resenhas
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Big Jubilee List (1)
AP Lit (3)
Prêmios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 86
- Also by
- 18
- Membros
- 23,128
- Popularidade
- #914
- Avaliação
- 3.6
- Resenhas
- 358
- ISBNs
- 931
- Idiomas
- 27
- Favorito
- 79
At the end the writer, as he sets down his memoir, sees a personal resolution in withdrawal from political and familial ambitions.
"It gives me joy to find that in so doing I have also fulfilled the fourfold division of life prescribed by our Aryan ancestors. I have been student, house-holder and man of affairs, recluse...
Yet I feel that in this time (his life to date) I have cleared the decks, as it were, and prepared myself for fresh action."
And so he did. This was Naipaul's second novel. Huge success for him was to follow.… (mais)