Birthdate: August 17, 1932
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Trinidad and Tobago
Died: August 11, 2018
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, a Trinidadian-born British writer, was renowned for his fiction and nonfiction works in English. He gained acclaim for his early humorous novels set in Trinidad and later delved into more somber themes of alienation and travel. Naipaul’s writing style received widespread praise throughout his career, which spanned over fifty years and produced more than thirty books. His notable achievements include winning the Booker Prize in 1971, the Jerusalem Prize in 1983, the Trinity Cross in 1990, a knighthood in 1990, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001.
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