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Naipaul

[ nahy-pawl ]
/ ˈnaɪˌpɔl /

noun

V(idiadhar) S(urajprasad), 1932–2018, English novelist and nonfiction writer, born in Trinidad.

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Example sentences from the Web for Naipaul

  • Of course Naipaul is wrong; many women write as well as he does including Jane Austen.

    Shut Up, Naipaul!||June 3, 2011|DAILY BEAST
  • Boyd notes, however, that “there is a new problem for avid readers of Naipaul—an inescapable one.”

    The Best of Brit Lit|Peter Stothard|October 7, 2010|DAILY BEAST
  • Naipaul sees garbage everywhere—even the rare absence of garbage impresses.

    The Best of Brit Lit|Peter Stothard|October 7, 2010|DAILY BEAST
  • More than that, it grants the reader repeated glimpses into the process through which Naipaul put his books together.

    Naipaul's Art of Darkness|Amitava Kumar|December 26, 2008|DAILY BEAST

British Dictionary definitions for Naipaul

Naipaul
/ (naɪˈpɔːl) /

noun

Sir V (idiadhar) S (urajprasad). born 1932, Trinidadian novelist of Indian descent, living in Britain. His works include A House for Mr Biswas (1961), In a Free State (1971), which won the Booker Prize, A Bend in the River (1979), The Enigma of Arrival (1987), and Beyond Belief (1998): Nobel prize for literature 2001
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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