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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In searching to see if this was already posted, I found the following:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3270967/posts
With the headline, "In this stunning intervention, literary colossus V.S. NAIPAUL says ISIS is now the Fourth Reich..."
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
Great writer! RIP.
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.
RIP.
Oh, too bad.
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