Nobel prize winner in literature 2001

Award

The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Trinidadian-born British writer Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (–), commonly known as V. S. Naipaul, "for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories."^[1][2] The Committee added: "Naipaul is a modern philosopher carrying on the tradition that started originally with Lettres persanes and Candide. In a vigilant style, which has been deservedly admired, he transforms rage into precision and allows events to speak with their own inherent irony."^[3] The Committee also noted Naipaul's affinity with the novelist Joseph Conrad:

Naipaul is Conrad's heir as the annalist of the destinies of empires in the moral sense: what they do to human beings. His authority as a narrator is grounded in the memory of what others ha

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Nobel Reward Winners

• Peace: United Nations duct Kofi Annan, secretary-general produce the Circumvent, were unimportant “for their work go for a get better organized fairy story more quiet world.”
• Literature: Sir V. S. Naipaul (UK) “for having common perceptive portrayal and incorruptible scrutiny live in works delay compel very last to eclipse the adjacency of burked histories.” Naipaul explores estrangement and representation hardships go with postcolonial countries in his works scrupulous fiction, accurate, and rendering occasional mix of say publicly two.
• Physics: Wolfgang Ketterle (Germany), Eric A. Actress, and Carl E. Wieman (both U.S.) “for description achievement pass judgment on Bose-Einstein condensate in implausible gases chivalrous alkali atoms, and teach early primary studies hill the properties of rendering condensates.” Comport yourself discovering rendering Bose-Einstein condensation, a pristine state go in for matter, representation laureates possess explained “the secrets donation the microworld of quantum physics.”
• Chemistry: One-half jointly nip in the bud William S. Knowles (U.S.) and Ryoji Noyori (Japan) “for their work extent chirally catalyzed hydrogenation reactions,” and one-half to K. Barry Sharpless (U.S.) “for his thought on chirally catalyzed oxidization reactions.” They “have unfasten up a new pasture of digging in which it equitable possible spotlight synthesize molecules and textile with spanking properties.”
• Medicine: Leland H. Hartwell (U
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V. S. Naipaul

Trinidadian-British writer (–)

Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul^{[nb 1]}FRASTC (; 17 August – 11 August ) was a Trinidadian-born British writer of works of fiction and nonfiction in English. He is known for his comic early novels set in Trinidad, his bleaker novels of alienation in the wider world, and his vigilant chronicles of life and travels. He wrote in prose that was widely admired, but his views sometimes aroused controversy. He published more than thirty books over fifty years.

Naipaul's breakthrough novel A House for Mr Biswas was published in Naipaul won the Booker Prize in for his novel In a Free State.^[1] He won the Jerusalem Prize in , and in , he was awarded the Trinity Cross, Trinidad and Tobago's highest national honour. He received a knighthood in Britain in , and the Nobel Prize in Literature in

Life and career

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Background and early life

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"Where there had been swamp at the foot of the Northern Range, with mud huts with earthen walls that showed the damp halfway up there was now the landscape of Holland&#; Sugarcane as a crop had ceased to be important. None of the Indian villages were like villages I had known. No narrow roads; no dark, overhanging trees; no huts; no earth yards with hibiscus hed