V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He came to England on a scholarship in 1950. He spent four years at University College, Oxford, and began to write, in London, in 1954. He pursued no other profession.His novels include A House for Mr Biswas, The Mimic Men, Guerrillas, A Bend in the River, and The Enigma of Arrival. In 1971 he was awarded the Booker Prize for In a Free State. 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 1990, V. S. Naipaul received a knighthood for services to literature; in 1993, he was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. He lived with his wife Nadira and cat Augustus in Wiltshire, and died in 2018.

With this book he may well have written his own enduring monument, in prose at once stirring and intensely personal, distinguished both by style and critical acumen.

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   Svaret på alla frågor om Indien

   Alla frågor som blir obesvarade trots att man reser i Indien och Indier inte begriper att förklara, klarnar genom Naipauls samtal med människor ur olika samhällsgrupper på olika platser i Indien. Inget man läser igenom på ett nafs, men den tål att dröja med; varje kapitel är ett eget samtal eller reportage och därför fristående. Unnar verkligen Naipaul Nobelpriset.

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   01 mars 2015