V. S. Naipaul

Career

1. 1932
   Born
2. 1971
   Won Booker Prize
3. 1983
   Won Jerusalem Prize
4. 1993
   Won International Nonino Prize
5. 2001
   Won Nobel Prize in Literature
6. 2018
   Passed away
7. Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
8. Member of Royal Society of Literature
9. Won John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
10. Notable work: A House for Mr Biswas
11. Notable work: In a Free State
12. Notable work: A Bend in the River
13. Notable work: The Enigma of Arrival
14. Notable work: The Mystic Masseur

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Chaguanas
• •Citizenship: Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom
• •Known as: writer, novelist, journalist, essayist
• •Genre: travel book, essay
• •Spouse: Nadira Naipaul