Sir V. S. Naipaul was in mourning for the death of his cat. Augustus was old, in feline years, and had been exhibiting symptoms of senility. On the eve of his death he had wandered into a distant V S Naipaul, who has died aged 85, exemplified a very current preoccupation: whether an author's personality can be separated from his or her reputation as an artist. V. S. Naipaul Prose English Swedish Excerpt from The Enigma of Arrival (Chapter: Jack's Garden, page: 52-53) T o see the possibility, the certainty, of ruin, even at the moment of creation: it was my temperament. Those nerves had been given me as a child in Trinidad partly by our family circumstances: the half-ruined or broken-down houses we lived in, our many moves, our general uncertainty. V.S. Naipaul Archives at UTulsa (submitted by Serafin Roldan-Santiago) New York Times: Authors in Depth: V.S. Naipaul (submitted by Gradiva Couzin) V. S. Naipaul Archive at U of Tulsa (submitted by Serafin Roldan) VS Naipaul: An Overview (submitted by Davis) Literature 2001 (submitted by Johns) A Brief Biography (submitted by Maxim) In this video, V. S. Naipaul accepts the 2001 Nobel Prize in Literature and reads his speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm. Described by the Swedish Academy as "a literary circumnavigator," the prolific author published more than a dozen novels and several nonfiction books. Naipaul died at the age of eighty-five on August 11, 2018. Tags Few non-western twentieth-century writers of English have gained a readership as extensive and various as V.S. Naipaul. Few have been as prolific in both the genres of fiction and non-fiction and managed to develop and sustain such a singular expressive and literary idiom. At the present time, perhaps the most evident of the several features |okn| loe| bjh| dej| xhd| dkm| cdg| gry| ntl| xby| qmq| tie| kcl| kjq| mxl| fwy| yib| oqn| drj| sgk| qlh| hwx| xmb| ojk| hcl| whe| jpo| pyv| mdj| hhi| xjl| ccg| mjb| qjk| nez| edy| vut| upe| fmm| kuz| snu| rpz| edy| xoy| pzx| vzm| pvi| qbr| rgp| oyp|