Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, won an Open National Scholarship from Queen's Royal College and went on to become a world famous novelist, winning the Nobel Laureate for Literature in the year 2001. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts from University College, Oxford in 1953, and four years later published his first book The Mystic Masseur, made into film by Ismail Merchant in 2001. In 1961 he published A House for Mr. Biswas, a novel autobiographical in its nature. Some of his other works include The Guerillas(1975),The Middle Passage(1962) A Bend in the River(1979), Among the Believers(1981), The Enigma of Arrival (1987), India: A Million Mutinies Now(1990),Beyond Belief(1998) and Half a Life(2001). In 1990 he was knighted by H.M. Queen Elizabeth and in 1992 Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was awarded the Trinity Cross for services to the nation.
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The mystic masseur
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A House for Mr. Biswas
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India
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The middle passage: impressions of five societies: British, French and Dutch in the West Indies and South America.
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Miguel Street
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The mimic men
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The suffrage of Elvira
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A flag on the island
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A Bend in the River
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An area of darkness
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Among the believers: an Islamic journey
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Guerrillas
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Mr. Stone and the knights companion
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A Way in the World
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In a Free State
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The loss of El Dorado: a history
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Beyond belief: Islamic excursions among the converted peoples
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The enigma of arrival: a novel
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Magic seeds
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A turn in the South
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Half a life: a novel
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Literary Occasions: Essays
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The Writer and the World: essays
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Area of Darkness: ji yi yu xian shi jiao cuo de Yindu zhi lü
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A writer's people: ways of looking and feeling : an essay in five parts
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LETTERS BETWEEN A FATHER AND SON: los años en Oxford
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Finding the centre: two narratives
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The overcrowded barracoon
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Between Father and Son: Family Letters
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Una Casa para Mr. Biswas
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The Return Of Eva Peron
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Essays: Africa and the Diaspora
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A House for Mr. Biswas with Related Readings
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A la courbe du fleuve
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The return of Eva Perón, with The killings in Trinidad
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The mimic man
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In einem freien Land
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La perdida de El Dorado: historia.
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The overcrowded barracoon, and other articles
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Finding the center: two narratives
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India a Wounded Civilization
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La traversée du milieu
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Le masseur mystique
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Une maison pour monsieur Biswas
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Comment je suis devenu écrivain
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Guerillas
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A Bend in the River ('Da he wan', in traditional Chinese, NOT in English)
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The Suffrage of Elvire
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Half a Life -- RUSSIAN VERSION
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Way in the World, A
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Untitled Novel
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India - Diptych (Showcard)
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Middle Passage Impressions of Five Socie
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La Moitié d'une vie
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Half a Life (SIGNED)
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Way in the World 'a' Open Market
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Mystic Masseur
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MR.STONE&KNIGHTS COMPN
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The Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book and Other Comic Inventions
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WRITER'S PEOPLE: WAYS OF LOOKING AND FEELING
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Media Vida (Arete)
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Jusqu'au bout de la foi
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Dis-moi qui tuer
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Jenseits des Glaubens. Eine Reise in den anderen Islam
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The middle passape: impressions of five societies British, French and Dutch, in the West Indies and South America
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Un Camino En El Mundo/ One Way in the World (Contemporanea)
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Eine Begegnung auf Trinidad
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Miguel Street. Eine Geschichte aus Trinidad
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El Enigma De La Llegada
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Los Simuladores
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L'Inde : Un million de révoltes (French Translation of India: A Million Mutinies Now)
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Miguel street (Literatura Mondadori / Mondadori Literature)
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El Regreso De Eva Peron Y Otras Cronicas
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One Out of Many
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Ein Haus für Mr. Biswas
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Bayit le-mar Bizṿaz
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The Perfect Tenants and the Mourners
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El Curandero Mistico
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Three novels
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Una Casa Para El Señor Biswas
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Das Lesen und das Schreiben
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The return of Eva Peron, with The killings in Trinidad
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Briefe zwischen Vater und Sohn
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Guerillas. Roman
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El Sanador Mistico/ the Mystic Masseur
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Vintage Naipaul
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The suffrage of Elviar
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En un estado libre
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Cartas entre un padre y un hijo/ Letters Between a Father and a Son
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Una Casa Para El Señor Biswas (Contempora)
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Among the belivers: an Islamic journey.
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The mask of Africa: glimpses of African belief
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L'Enigme de l'arrivée
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Eine islamische Reise. Unter den Gläubigen
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Un Camino En El Mundo
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Leer Y Escribir/ Reading and Writing
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Media Vida
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Ein halbes Leben
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Wahlkampf auf karibisch. Oder: Eine Hand wäscht die andere.
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El Sanador Mistico
1 edition - first published in 2002
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