Down Memory Lane: Indian Nobel Prize Winners
#Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
Sir V.S. Naipaul is a Trinidadian-British writer of Indian descent known for his novels set in developing countries.
He won the Nobel Prize in 2001 for his novel, Half a Life. Naipaul has published more than 30 books, both of fiction and nonfiction, over some 50 years.
Naipaul was educated at Queen's Royal College, Port of Spain, and in 1950 he won a scholarship to Oxford. Naipaul's ability to stir up public debate is widely recognized.
In 2011 he said in an interview at the Royal Geographic Society: "I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not. I think [it is] unequal to me." Naipaul criticized female writers for "sentimentality" and "narrow view of the world".
