The nobel prize in literature 2001

for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories







sir v.s. naipaul


great britain


1932 -


the nobel prize in literature for 2001 is awarded to the british writer, born in trinidad, v.s. naipaul
v.s. naipaul is a literary circumnavigator, only ever really at home in himself, in his inimitable voice. singularly unaffected by literary fashion and models he has wrought existing genres into a style of his own, in which the customary distinctions between fiction and non-fiction are of subordinate importance.
naipauls literary domain has extended far beyond the west indian island of trinidad, his first subject, and now encompasses india, africa, america from south to north, the islamic countries of asia and, not least, england. naipaul is...