Biography Essay"Half the writer's work . . . is the discovery of his subject." With this statement V. S. Naipaul declares his purpose as a writer and the object of his craft—the imaginative shap...
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V. S. Naipaul (born 1932) was one of the foremost spokespersons in English prose of the post-colonial Third World.Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was born August 17, 1932, in Trinidad, where his grandfa...
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V. S. Naipaul is both one of the most highly regarded and one of the most controversial of contemporary writers. Widely admired in North America and Europe for the lucidity of his prose style, his inc...
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In a 1994 interview with John F. Baker, V. S. Naipaul said: “I'd like to travel some more before the body shuts down completely. But I can't travel without writing. I love to see things come out ...
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V. S. Naipaul is a gifted contemporary novelist. No important guide to twentieth-century literature is presently without a reference to his work, which has been prolific. In the early stages of his ca...
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The army has captured a senior commander of Colombia's second largest rebel group, the government said Tuesday, calling it a major blow to the guerrillas that could push them closer to a peace deal...
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BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian guerrillas kidnapped six
tourists traveling by boat on a remote river a few days after
freeing two high-profile hostages in a deal brokered by Venezuelan
President Hug...
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Iranian artillery shelled near Iraqi Kurd villages Thursday as Iranian troops clashed with Kurdish guerrillas making an incursion across the border, officials in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan said.It...
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Translated excerpts provided by Colombia's government from the captured diary of a Dutch woman who became a rebel fighter with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia:_Aug. 23, 2006: I called ho...
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The army stumbled on the handwritten diary during a raid on a guerrilla camp. It lay near the embers of a communal kitchen where fleeing rebels left their breakfast untouched."I'm tired, tired of t...
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The political scandal that forced Colombia's foreign minister to quit and put other close allies of President Alvaro Uribe in jail is being driven in large part by a rebel-turned-senator who has de...
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BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia has asked Denmark to
crack down on donations made to Marxist guerrillas after a
local trade union offered a contribution to a FARC rebel
commander, authorities said Wed...
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V. S. Naipaul
V(idiadhar) S(urajprasad) Naipaul
Colombia captures guerrilla leader
