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V.S. Naipaul
Name at birth: Vidiadhar Surajprasad NaipaulSir V. S. Naipaul was an essayist and novelist who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2001. Trinidadian by birth, Indian by descent and British by…Naipaul, V. S.
(Encyclopedia) Naipaul, V. S. (Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul)Naipaul, V. S.nīpôlˈ [key], 1932–2018, English writer, b. Chaguanas, Trinidad; grad. University College, Oxford, 1953. Naipul, whose…Nobel Prizes: 2002
/* /*]]>*/ 2002 Nobel Prize Winners Jimmy Carter, former president of the United States Related Links Nobel Prize HistoryEncyclopedia:Nobel Prizes Quiz:Nobel Prize History Past…2008 National Book Critics Circle Awards
Fiction: 2666, Roberto Bolaño (Farrar, Srauss) General Nonfiction: The Forever War, Dexter…Booker Prize
(Encyclopedia) Booker Prize, an award of £50,000 (originally £5,000) for the best novel of the year published in English in Great Britain; prior to 2014, it was only given to a British, Irish, or…2001 Nobel Prize Winners
Peace: United Nations and Kofi Annan, secretary-general of the UN, were cited “for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world.” Literature: Sir V. S. Naipaul (UK) “for having…The 100 Best English-Language Novels of the 20th Century
The Board of the Modern Library, a division of Random House, published its selections in July 1998. Ulysses, James Joyce (1922) The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925) A Portrait of the…Woo
Director:Daisy V.S. MayerWriter:David C. JohnsonDirector of Photography:Jean LepineEditors:Nicholas Eliopoulos and Janice HamptonMusic:Michel ColombierProduction Designer:Ina MayhewProducers:…Helen Gahagan DOUGLAS, Congress, CA (1900-1980)
DOUGLAS Helen Gahagan , a Representative from California; born in Boonton, Morris County, N.J., November 25, 1900; attended the public schools, Berkeley School for Girls, Brooklyn, N.Y., Capen…Andre Deutsch 2000 Deaths
Andre DeutschAge: 82 Hungarian-born British publisher whose small but influential house introduced post-War England to the works of Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, John Updike, and V. S. Naipaul…