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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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Witty, tender, filled with the sights, sounds, and smells of Trinidad\'s dusty Indian villages, The Mystic Masseur is Naipaul at his most expansive and evocative.
There are patients pursued by malign clouds or afflicted with an amorous fascination with bicycles.
There\'s the aunt known as The Great Belcher. of; punctuation: marks ; and Leela\'s father, Ramlogan, a man of startling mood changes and an ever-ready cutlass.
There\'s his skeptical wife, Leela, whose schooling has made her excessively, fond.
They think nothing of killing two, three people before breakfast." Ganesh\'s ascent is variously aided and impeded by a Dickensian cast of rogues and eccentrics.
As one character observes, "I know the sort of doctors they have in Trinidad.
To understand a little better, one has to realize that in the 1940s masseurs were the island\'s medical practitioners of choice.
Naipaul traces the unlikely career of Ganesh Ramsumair, a failed schoolteacher and impecunious village Masseur who in time becomes a revered mystic, a thriving entrepreneur, and the most beloved politician in Trinidad.
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