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V. S. Naipaul (1932–2018)

Author of A House for Mr Biswas

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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 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)
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A House for Mr Biswas 3,114 copies, 63 reviews
A Bend in the River 2,934 copies, 54 reviews
Half a Life 1,370 copies, 21 reviews
Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey 1,188 copies, 12 reviews
In a Free State 1,019 copies, 23 reviews
The Enigma of Arrival 994 copies, 16 reviews
An Area of Darkness 767 copies, 14 reviews
India: A Million Mutinies Now 734 copies, 6 reviews
Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples 718 copies, 6 reviews
Miguel Street 679 copies, 14 reviews
The Mystic Masseur 652 copies, 11 reviews
A Way in the World 609 copies, 4 reviews
India: A Wounded Civilization 599 copies, 7 reviews
The Mimic Men 592 copies, 7 reviews
Guerrillas 588 copies, 4 reviews
A Turn in the South 523 copies, 10 reviews
Magic Seeds 520 copies, 7 reviews
The Middle Passage: The Caribbean Revisited 413 copies, 4 reviews
The Loss of El Dorado: A Colonial History 356 copies, 4 reviews
The Writer and the World: Essays 351 copies
The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief (Borzoi Books) 268 copies, 9 reviews
Literary Occasions: Essays 260 copies, 3 reviews
The Return of Eva Peron 234 copies, 3 reviews
Between Father and Son: Family Letters 195 copies, 3 reviews
Mr. Stone and the Knights Companion 188 copies, 7 reviews
Finding the Center 180 copies, 4 reviews
The Suffrage of Elvira 176 copies
A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling 156 copies, 5 reviews
Reading and Writing: A Personal Account 154 copies, 2 reviews
The Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book: And Other Comic Inventions 130 copies
A Flag on the Island 102 copies
Collected Short Fiction (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series) 77 copies
The Overcrowded Barracoon 76 copies, 2 reviews
Mystic Masseur & Miguel Street 47 copies
Three Novels: The Mystic Masseur; Suffrage of Elvira; Miguel Street 30 copies
Vintage Naipaul 30 copies
2 Novels: A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River 24 copies
Proloog voor een autobiografie 20 copies
De krokodillen van Yamoussoukro 16 copies
Oeuvres romanesques choisies : Dans un état libre,… 4 copies
Conversations with V. S. Naipaul 4 copies, 1 review
Sacrifices 2 copies
Two worlds : Nobel lecture December 7, 2001 2 copies
Scrittori di uno scrittore: Modi di guardare e di sentire 2 copies
Bland de rättrogna 1 copy
La Perdida de El Dorado 1 copy
V ohybu řeky 1 copy
Ler e escrever (Portuguese Edition) 1 copy
Fedeli a oltranza. Un viaggio tra i popoli convertiti all'Islam.… 1 copy
An Area of Darkness - An Experience of India 1 copy
A House for Mr. Biswas Glencoe Study Guide 1 copy
La fin du roman 1 copy
Bim 1 copy
magazine: "The Indepandant Magazine" 10 September, 1988 1 copy
magazine: "The Independant Magazine" 17, September, 1988 1 copy
The Night Watchman's Occurrence Book {short story} 1 copy
In a Free State: One Out of Many; Tell Me Who to Kill; in a Free State… 1 copy
Le regard et l'écrit : Traduit de l'anglais par… 1 copy
Rare - V S Naipaul GUERRILLAS 1976 First American Edition 3rd Printing in… (Author) 1 copy
Dolore (Microgrammi Vol. 1) (Italian Edition) 1 copy
The painter of signs 1 copy
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Points of View: Revised Edition (Contributor) 378 copies, 6 reviews
Best of Modern Humor (Contributor) 271 copies, 3 reviews
Granta 57: India! The Golden Jubilee (Contributor) 183 copies
Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic (Contributor) 141 copies, 3 reviews
The Norton Book of Personal Essays (Contributor) 131 copies, 1 review
The Norton Book of Travel (Contributor) 105 copies, 1 review
The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories (Contributor) 84 copies, 1 review
Nobel Lectures: From the Literature Laureates, 1986 to 2006 (Contributor) 65 copies
The Picador Book of Journeys (Contributor) 49 copies
Trinidad Noir: The Classics (Contributor) 33 copies, 8 reviews
Antaeus No. 61, Autumn 1988 - Journals, Notebooks & Diaries (Contributor) 29 copies, 2 reviews
Into the Widening World: International Coming-of-Age Stories (Contributor) 27 copies
The Faber Book of Contemporary Caribbean Short Stories (Contributor) 14 copies
Naar huis (Contributor) 13 copies
Bombay: Gateway of India (Conversation with) 12 copies
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