V S Naipaul

Amul's tribute to VS Naipaul refers to his most controversial book 'Among the Believers'

August 14, 2018 12:04 pm

VS Naipaul was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001 “for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories”. He also received a Knighthood in 1990.

Literature’s light in an area of darkness, V S Naipaul dies at 85

August 13, 2018 7:09 am

These were stories of homecoming, by a writer who was uneasy in his ancestral home. Such uneasiness about one’s cultural moorings may be seen as an act of assertion, of the need for the writer’s identity to be rooted only in the self.

V S Naipaul dies at 85, President Kovind calls it 'loss for the world of letters'

August 12, 2018 9:27 am

When he was awarded the 2001 Nobel prize for literature, the Swedish Academy described him as a "literary circumnavigator, only ever really at home in himself, in his inimitable voice".

V S Naipaul, Nobel prize winning author, passes away at 85

August 12, 2018 12:58 pm

In an extraordinary career spanning half a century, Naipaul travelled as a self-described `barefoot colonial' from his rural childhood to upper-class England, and was hailed as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.

What to Expect When You’re Litfesting

January 27, 2015 10:36 am

The Jaipur Literature Festival 2015 in three acts

My mother had asked me to leave India to the Indians: V S Naipaul

January 24, 2015 6:35 pm

The Indian-origin British author, who was born in Trinidad narrated what his mother had to say to him.

V S Naipaul, Elanor Catton set to attend JLF festival

September 10, 2014 3:19 pm

77 authors are set to take part in the annual literary extravaganza to take place in Jaipur in January 2015.

Back in town,Chandigarh Book Fair gets off to a good start

November 14, 2013 3:42 am

Booker Prize to admit American authors

September 19, 2013 1:11 am

Founded in 1969,the Booker has previously been open only to writers from Britain,Ireland and the 54-nation Commonwealth of former British colonies.

Karnad slams Naipaul,questions his Mumbai fest award

April 17, 2014 2:26 pm

WRITER and actor Girish Karnad left the organisers of the Mumbai LitFest red-faced Friday as he publicly questioned their decision to give V S Naipaul a lifetime achievement award.

Nobel laureate V S Naipaul, known for novels like 'A Bend in the River', dies at 85

August 13, 2018 6:46 am

In its Nobel citation, the Swedish Academy called him "a literary circumnavigator, only ever really at home in himself."