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He lived with his wife Nadira and cat Augustus in Wiltshire, and died in 2018..
He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001.
Naipaul received a knighthood for services to literature; in 1993, he was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize.
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His works of nonfiction, equally acclaimed, include Among the Believers, Beyond Belief, The Masque of Africa, and a trio of books about India: An Area of Darkness, India: A Wounded Civilization and India: A Million Mutinies Now.
In 1971 he was awarded the Booker Prize for In a Free State.
His novels include A House for Mr Biswas, The Mimic Men, Guerrillas, A Bend in the River, and The Enigma of Arrival.
He pursued no other profession.
He spent four years at University College, Oxford, and began to write, in London, in 1954.
He came to England on a scholarship in 1950.
Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932.
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The result may be the most elegant and passionate book ever written about the subcontinent.
An Area of Darkness also abounds with Naipaul\'s strikingly original responses to India\'s paralyzing caste system, its apparently serene acceptance of poverty and squalor, and the conflict between its desire for self-determination and its nostalgia for the British raj.
Traveling from the bureaucratic morass of Bombay to the ethereal beauty of Kashmir, from a sacred ice cave in the Himalayas to an abandoned temple near Madras, Naipaul encounters a dizzying cross-section of humanity: browbeaten government workers and imperious servants, a suavely self-serving holy man and a deluded American religious seeker.
Naipaul\'s profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland and an extraordinarily perceptive chronicle of his first encounter with India.
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