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V S Naipaul, British writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1932)
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Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was a Trinidadian-born British writer of works of fiction and nonfiction in English. He is known for his comic early novels set in Trinidad, his bleaker novels of alienation in the wider world, and his vigilant chronicles of life and travels. He…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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