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Nobel Prize-winning author VS Naipaul dies aged 85
BBC ^ | 8/12/2018 | BBC

Posted on 08/12/2018 6:26:45 AM PDT by mononymous

Novelist Sir VS Naipaul, who won the Nobel Prize in literature, has died aged 85, his family have said.

Sir Vidia, who was born in rural Trinidad in 1932, wrote more than 30 books including A Bend in the River and his masterpiece, A House for Mr Biswas.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: literature; naipaul; nobel
RIP. His "House for Mr. Biswas" is a good read.

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With the headline, "In this stunning intervention, literary colossus V.S. NAIPAUL says ISIS is now the Fourth Reich..."

1 posted on 08/12/2018 6:26:45 AM PDT by mononymous
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To: mononymous

He was a fabulous writer of both fiction and nonfiction. And he wrote very honestly — not a whiff of PC. His younger brother Shiva was at least as good a writer, but he died very young. VS = Vidyadhar Surajprasad


2 posted on 08/12/2018 6:51:53 AM PDT by Blurb2350
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To: mononymous

Great writer! RIP.


3 posted on 08/12/2018 7:16:47 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Blurb2350

He was just another multicultural pseudo intellectual. He was not a friend of the Western Civilization even though he spend most of hid life living in Western Society.


4 posted on 08/12/2018 8:50:04 AM PDT by wmileo
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To: mononymous

RIP.


5 posted on 08/12/2018 10:40:44 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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Not a fan.

A Collection of the Worst Things V.S. Naipaul Has Ever Said

6 posted on 08/12/2018 12:43:08 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Interrupt Obama and reporters are racist; interrupt Trump and they're heroes. --Mark Levin)
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To: mononymous

Oh, too bad.


7 posted on 08/12/2018 2:07:21 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Fill in my standard rant.)
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