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The Nobel Prize in Literature 2001

"for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories"
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
United Kingdom
b. 1932
(in Trinidad)
 
 
 
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