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V.S. Naipaul

Vladimir Surajprasad Naipaul, noto come V.S. Naipaul, è un autore trinidadiano-britannico di fama mondiale, nato il 17 agosto 1932 a Chaguanas, Trinidad e Tobago. I suoi antenati emigrarono dalle isole dell'India come servi sotto contratto. Le opere di Naipaul sono conosciute per la loro commovente comicità, in particolare quelle ambientate a Trinidad, e per la sua acuta osservazione del mondo in continua evoluzione rimodellato dal passaggio delle genti.

Naipaul iniziò la sua carriera di scrittore con romanzi comici ambientati a Trinidad e Tobago. Dopo aver ricevuto una borsa di studio del governo di Trinidad, si trasferì in Inghilterra nel 1950 per studiare all'Oxford. Fu lì che decise di dedicarsi seriamente alla scrittura, spinto dal desiderio di "scrivere" piuttosto che studiare una specifica materia. La prosa di Naipaul è ampiamente ammirata per la sua narrazione perspicace e lo scrutinio incorruttibile, che in seguito gli valse il Premio Nobel per la Letteratura nel 2001.

Nel corso della sua carriera di scrittura di oltre 50 anni, Naipaul pubblicò più di 30 romanzi ed opere, tra cui sia fiction che non-fiction. Vinse il Booker Prize nel 1971 per il suo romanzo "In a Free State" e il Premio Nobel per la Letteratura nel 2001 per "Half a Life". Le opere di Naipaul riflettono spesso la sua vita e i suoi viaggi, in particolare nei paesi in via di sviluppo. La sua prima moglie, Patricia Ann Hale, svolse il ruolo di editor, first reader e critico fino alla sua morte nel 1996. Naipaul sposò Nadira Khannum Alvi, una giornalista pakistana in pensione, nel 1996. Fu nominato cavaliere da Elisabetta II nel 1989 per i suoi servizi alla letteratura.
India Trilogy Books
# Titolo Anno
1 An Area of Darkness 1964
2 A Wounded Civilization 1976
3 A Million Mutinies Now 1990
Willie Chandran Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Half a Life 2001
2 Magic Seeds 2004
Romanzi singoli
# Titolo Anno
1 The Mimic Men 1867
2 The Mystic Masseur 1957
3 The Suffrage of Elvira 1958
4 Miguel Street 1959
5 A House for Mr Biswas 1961
6 Mr Stone And The Knights Companion 1963
7 In a Free State 1971
8 Guerrillas 1975
9 A Bend in the River 1979
10 Finding the Center 1984
11 Overcrowded Barracoon 1984
12 The Enigma of Arrival 1987
13 A Way in the World 1994
Collezioni
# Titolo Anno
1 A Flag on the Island 1967
2 Collected Short Fiction 1971
3 The Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book 2002
4 Vintage Naipaul 2004
Libri di non-fiction
# Titolo Anno
1 The Middle Passage 1962
2 Reading and Writing 1968
3 The Loss of El Dorado 1969
4 The Perfect Tenants and the Mourners 1977
5 The Return of Eva Peron 1980
6 A Congo Diary 1980
7 Among the Believers 1981
8 A Turn In The South 1989
9 Beyond Belief 1998
10 Between Father and Son 1999
11 The Writer and the World 2002
12 Literary Occasions 2003
13 A Writer's People 2007
14 The Masque of Africa 2010
15 India Essays 2018
Akashic Noir Books
# Titolo Anno
1 San Francisco Noir 2002
2 Seattle Noir 2003
3 Bronx Noir 2003
4 Brooklyn Noir 2004
5 Brooklyn Noir 2 2005
6 Chicago Noir 2005
7 Dublin Noir 2005
8 Manhattan Noir 2006
9 Miami Noir 2006
10 D.C. Noir 2006
11 Dublin Noir: The Celtic Tiger vs. the Ugly American 2006
12 Baltimore Noir 2006
13 Twin Cities Noir 2006
14 London Noir 2006
15 New Orleans Noir 2007
16 Los Angeles Noir 2007
17 Wall Street Noir 2007
18 Havana Noir 2007
19 Detroit Noir 2007
20 Queens Noir 2008
21 Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing But the Truth 2008
22 Toronto Noir 2008
23 Las Vegas Noir 2008
24 Trinidad Noir 2008
25 D.C. Noir 2 2008
26 Manhattan Noir 2 2008
27 Paris Noir 2008
28 Istanbul Noir 2008
29 Boston Noir 2009
30 Rome Noir 2009
31 San Francisco Noir 2 2009
32 Portland Noir 2009
33 Delhi Noir 2009
34 Phoenix Noir 2009
35 Los Angeles Noir 2 2010
36 Mexico City Noir 2010
37 Richmond Noir 2010
38 Orange County Noir 2010
39 Indian Country Noir 2010
40 Moscow Noir 2010
41 Lone Star Noir 2010
42 Philadelphia Noir 2010
43 Haiti Noir 2010
44 Copenhagen Noir 2010
45 Pittsburgh Noir 2011
46 San Diego Noir 2011
47 Barcelona Noir 2011
48 Cape Cod Noir 2011
49 New Jersey Noir 2011
50 Staten Island Noir 2012
51 When They Are Done With Us 2012
52 Mumbai Noir 2012
53 Long Island Noir 2012
54 Venice Noir 2012
55 Kingston Noir 2012
56 St. Petersburg Noir 2012
57 Kansas City Noir 2012
58 Boston Noir 2 2012
59 USA Noir 2013
60 Manila Noir 2013
61 Buffalo Noir 2013
62 Dallas Noir 2013
63 Haiti Noir 2 2013
64 Singapore Noir 2014
65 Prison Noir 2014
66 Tel Aviv Noir 2014
67 Tehran Noir 2014
68 Belfast Noir 2014
69 Helsinki Noir 2014
70 Rio Noir 2014
71 Providence Noir 2015
72 Chicago Noir: The Classics 2015
73 Memphis Noir 2015
74 Zagreb Noir 2015
75 Marseille Noir 2015
76 Beirut Noir 2015
77 New Orleans Noir: The Classics 2016
78 Stockholm Noir 2016
79 Brussels Noir 2016
80 Mississippi Noir 2016
81 St. Louis Noir 2016
82 Prague Noir 2016
83 San Juan Noir 2016
84 Oakland Noir 2017
85 Trinidad Noir: The Classics 2017
86 Atlanta Noir 2017
87 New Haven Noir 2017
88 Montana Noir 2017
89 Buenos Aires Noir 2017
90 Montreal Noir 2017
91 Berlin Noir 2018
92 São Paulo Noir 2018
93 Santa Cruz Noir 2018
94 Lagos Noir 2018
95 Marrakech Noir 2018
96 Baghdad Noir 2018
97 Vancouver Noir 2018
98 Sydney Noir 2018
99 Hong Kong Noir 2018
100 Amsterdam Noir 2019
101 Milwaukee Noir 2019
102 Houston Noir 2019
103 Nairobi Noir 2020
104 Columbus Noir 2020
105 Santa Fe Noir 2020
106 Alabama Noir 2020
107 Berkeley Noir 2020
108 Addis Ababa Noir 2020
109 Tampa Bay Noir 2020
110 Miami Noir: The Classics 2020
111 Accra Noir 2020
112 Belgrade Noir 2020
113 Palm Springs Noir 2021
114 Paris Noir: The Suburbs 2022
115 Denver Noir 2022
116 South Central Noir 2022
117 Cleveland Noir 2023
118 East Jerusalem Noir 2023
119 West Jerusalem Noir 2023
120 Honolulu Noir 2024
121 Sacramento Noir 2025
122 Hamburg Noir 2025
Literary Conversations Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges 1969
2 Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz 1981
3 Conversations with Graham Greene 1983
4 Conversations with Eudora Welty 1985
5 Conversations with Walker Percy 1985
6 Conversations With Isaac Bashevis Singer 1985
7 Conversations with William Styron 1985
8 Conversations with Malcolm Cowley 1986
9 Conversations with Lillian Hellman 1986
10 Conversations with Tennessee Williams 1986
11 Conversations with Ernest Hemingway 1986
12 Conversations with Katherine Anne Porter 1987
13 Truman Capote: Conversations 1987
14 Conversations with Flannery O'Connor 1987
15 Conversations with Peter Taylor 1987
16 Conversations with Arthur Miller 1987
17 Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut 1988
18 Conversations with Edward Albee 1988
19 Conversations with Erskine Caldwell 1988
20 Conversations with Norman Mailer 1988
21 Conversations with Robert Graves 1989
22 Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates 1989
23 Conversations with Shelby Foote 1989
24 Conversations with Robertson Davies 1989
25 Conversations with James Baldwin 1989
26 Conversations with John Gardner 1990
27 Conversations with Richard Wilbur 1990
28 Conversations with Tom Wolfe 1990
29 Conversations with Raymond Carver 1990
30 Conversations with Eugene O'Neill 1990
31 Conversations with Reynolds Price 1991
32 Conversations with Bernard Malamud 1991
33 Conversations with Elizabeth Spencer 1991
34 Conversations with Nikki Giovanni 1992
35 Conversations With Thornton Wilder 1992
36 Conversations with Robert Coles 1992
37 Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher 1992
38 More Conversations with Walker Percy 1993
39 Conversations with Richard Wright 1993
40 Conversations with Paul Bowles 1993
41 Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris 1994
42 Conversations with Amiri Baraka 1994
43 Conversations with Toni Morrison 1994
44 Conversations with Saul Bellow 1994
45 Conversations with Henry Miller 1994
46 Conversations with Ernest Gaines 1995
47 Conversations with Ralph Ellison 1995
48 Conversations with Chester Himes 1995
49 Conversations with Susan Sontag 1995
50 Conversations with Ishmael Reed 1995
51 Conversations with Derek Walcott 1996
52 More Conversations with Eudora Welty 1996
53 Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop 1996
54 Conversations with Pauline Kael 1996
55 Conversations with V. S. Naipaul 1997
56 Conversations with N. Scott Momaday 1997
57 Conversations with Chinua Achebe 1997
58 Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston 1998
59 Conversations with Denise Levertov 1998
60 Conversations With William Faulkner 1999
61 Conversations with E. L. Doctorow 1999
62 Conversations With John Fowles 1999
63 Conversations with Salman Rushdie 2000
64 Conversations with William S. Burroughs 2000
65 Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko 2000
66 Conversations with Chaim Potok 2001
67 Conversations with Richard Ford 2001
68 Conversations with Christopher Isherwood 2001
69 Conversations with Mary Gordon 2002
70 Conversations with Jim Harrison 2002
71 Conversations with Clarence Major 2002
72 Conversations with Margaret Walker 2002
73 Conversations with Erica Jong 2002
74 Elie Wiesel: Conversations 2002
75 Joseph Brodsky: Conversations 2003
76 Conversations with Rita Dove 2003
77 Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald 2003
78 Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks 2003
79 Conversations with Stanley Kaufmann 2003
80 Conversations with Gloria Naylor 2004
81 Conversations with Audre Lorde 2004
82 Conversations with Ray Bradbury 2004
83 Conversations With John le Carré 2004
84 Conversations with Isaac Asimov 2005
85 Conversations with Don DeLillo 2005
86 Conversations with Gore Vidal 2005
87 Conversations with Robert Penn Warren 2005
88 Conversations with Jack Kerouac 2005
89 Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez 2005
90 Conversations with Thomas McGuane 2006
91 Conversations with Larry Brown 2007
92 Conversations with Sonia Sanchez 2007
93 Conversations with Wendell Berry 2007
94 Conversations with Leon Forrest 2007
95 Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro 2008
V.S. Naipaul Anthologies
# Titolo Anno
1 Points of View 1956
2 Island Voices 1965
3 Island Voices: Stories from the West Indies 1965
4 From The Green Antilles Writings Of The Caribbean 1967
5 The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories 1999
6 San Francisco Noir 2002
7 Seattle Noir 2003
8 Bronx Noir 2003
9 Brooklyn Noir 2004
10 Brooklyn Noir 2 2005
11 Chicago Noir 2005
12 A Tangled Web 2005
13 Dublin Noir 2005
14 Miami Noir 2006
15 Baltimore Noir 2006
16 Twin Cities Noir 2006
17 London Noir 2006
18 Los Angeles Noir 2007
19 Wall Street Noir 2007
20 Havana Noir 2007
21 Detroit Noir 2007
22 Four Continents 2008
23 Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing But the Truth 2008
24 Toronto Noir 2008
25 Trinidad Noir 2008
26 Boston Noir 2009
27 Delhi Noir 2009
28 Phoenix Noir 2009
29 Mexico City Noir 2010
30 Richmond Noir 2010
31 Orange County Noir 2010
32 Indian Country Noir 2010
33 Moscow Noir 2010
34 Lone Star Noir 2010
35 Philadelphia Noir 2010
36 Haiti Noir 2010
37 Pittsburgh Noir 2011
38 Barcelona Noir 2011
39 Cape Cod Noir 2011
40 New Jersey Noir 2011
41 Staten Island Noir 2012
42 Long Island Noir 2012
43 Venice Noir 2012
44 Kingston Noir 2012
45 St. Petersburg Noir 2012
46 Kansas City Noir 2012
47 Buffalo Noir 2013
48 Haiti Noir 2 2013
49 Singapore Noir 2014
50 Tel Aviv Noir 2014
51 Providence Noir 2015
52 Zagreb Noir 2015
53 Marseille Noir 2015
54 Beirut Noir 2015
55 Stockholm Noir 2016
56 Brussels Noir 2016
57 Mississippi Noir 2016
58 St. Louis Noir 2016
59 Prague Noir 2016
60 Oakland Noir 2017
61 Trinidad Noir: The Classics 2017
62 New Haven Noir 2017
63 Montana Noir 2017
64 Buenos Aires Noir 2017
65 Montreal Noir 2017
66 São Paulo Noir 2018
67 Santa Cruz Noir 2018
68 Vancouver Noir 2018
69 Hong Kong Noir 2018
70 Amsterdam Noir 2019
71 Columbus Noir 2020
72 Addis Ababa Noir 2020
73 Cleveland Noir 2023