{"id":5578,"date":"2021-08-17T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T04:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/?p=5578"},"modified":"2021-08-17T10:40:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T05:10:53","slug":"vsnaipaul-nobel-winner-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/17\/vsnaipaul-nobel-winner-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"V. S. Naipaul: The Nobel Winner of Many Hues"},"content":{"rendered":"

V. S. Naipaul was born on this day in 1932. He put Trinidad and Tobago on the map with the literature he churned out- thirty books in half a century. He won several awards including the Booker Prize, the Jerusalem Prize, the Trinity Cross and the Nobel Prize in Literature.<\/p>\n

He was awarded the Nobel “for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories.”<\/p>\n

“Naipaul is a modern philosopher carrying on the tradition that started originally with Lettres persanes<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Candide<\/em>. In a vigilant style, which has been deservedly admired, he transforms rage into precision and allows events to speak with their own inherent irony.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

His grandparents were indentured servants who had left India when the Great Famine left them with no choice but to flee the country. His father Seepersad inspired him to be a novelist.<\/p>\n

Naipaul ended up moving from Trinidad and Tobago to study at Oxford and he worked as a journalist on a part-time basis with the BBC. When he spoke about his writing process, he often referred to how he was entirely self-taught. He learned about writing from the act of writing itself.<\/p>\n

His initial novels were set in the remote region of Trinidad and Tobago. It was A House for Mr Biswas<\/a> <\/em>that established Naipaul as a fixture in the British literary scene. His voice is tinged with irony and even his non-fiction has the aspect of fiction. During his Nobel Banquet Speech<\/a>, he told a little tale of how his watch stopped when he arrived in Stockholm. For him, storytelling was the only mode of expression.<\/p>\n

His legacy is, however, one of contradictions, his views are often accused of being controversial and misogynistic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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V. S. Naipaul was born on this day in 1932. He put Trinidad and Tobago on the map with the literature he churned out- thirty books in half a century. He won several awards including the Booker Prize, the Jerusalem Prize, the Trinity Cross and the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was awarded the Nobel … Continue reading “V. S. 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