In a Free State

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves Zusammenfassung Winner of the Booker Prize in 1971 and nominated for the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018.

Product details

• Authors: V S Naipaul, V. S. Naipaul, V.S. Naipaul, Vidiadhar S. Naipaul
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.08.2020
• EAN: 9781529013030
• ISBN: 978-1-5290-1303-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 105 mm x 160 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Collector's Library; Macmillan Collector's Library; Collector's Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Uganda, London, Greater London, FICTION / Political, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, District of Columbia (Washington D.C.), TRAVEL / Africa / General, Africa, India, Travel writing, Narrative theme: Social issues, Rwanda, Narrative theme: Politics, Narrative theme: Sense of place, African History, Civil rights & citizenship, Penology and punishment, Prisons, District Of Columbia (Washington, Dc), FICTION / African American & Black / Historical, Civics and citizenship, Washington (US State)