The Hudson Review, October 1st, 2002
Last December, on the day after being presented with the Nobel Prize for Literature, V. S. Naipaul sat down in Stockholm for a televised conversation with three fellow literary laureates, Gunter Grass, Nadine Gordimer, and Seamus Heaney, and with Per Wastberg, a member of the Swedish Academy. One might have expected that the topic under discussion would be writing and literature, but the Nobelists soon turned to politics. Naipaul, alone in resisting this direction, protested that he is not political: he just writes about people. "Perhaps that's too frivolous," he suggested slyly. Gordimer, per...
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