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He 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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