Nobel prize-winning British author V.S. Naipaul has died at the age of 85, his family announced on Saturday.”He died surrounded by those he loved having lived a life which was full of wonderful creativity and endeavour,” his wife Lady Nadira Naipaul said in a statement.
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Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad “Vidia” Naipaul, popularly known as VS Naipaul was born on August 17, 1932. He was a Caribbean writer of Indian descent and Nobel Laureate who was born in Trinidad with British citizenship. He had won Nobel Prize in 2001 for his 1987 masterpiece ‘The Enigma of Arrival’.The Swedish Academy praised his work and said, “to see the presence of suppressed histories. … In a vigilant style, (he) transforms rage into precision and allows events to speak with their own inherent irony.”
He will be remembered for his works like, A House For Mr. Biswas, In a Free State, A Bend in the River, and ofcourse, The Enigma of Arrival.