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
23 editions - first published in 1764 -
A House for Mr. Biswas
22 editions - first published in 1961 -
Miguel Street
20 editions - first published in 1959 -
The middle passage: impressions of five societies: British, French and Dutch in the West Indies and South America.
20 editions - first published in 1962 -
India
20 editions - first published in 1977 -
The mimic men
16 editions - first published in 1967 -
The suffrage of Elvira
15 editions - first published in 1958 -
A flag on the island
14 editions - first published in 1967 -
An area of darkness
14 editions - first published in 1964 -
A Bend in the River
14 editions - first published in 1979 -
Guerrillas
10 editions - first published in 1975 -
Among the believers: an Islamic journey
10 editions - first published in 1981 -
Mr. Stone and the knights companion
9 editions - first published in 1963 -
A Way in the World
9 editions - first published in 1994 -
In a Free State
8 editions - first published in 1971 -
The loss of El Dorado: a history
8 editions - first published in 1969 -
A turn in the South
7 editions - first published in 1989 -
Literary Occasions: Essays
6 editions - first published in 2003 -
Magic seeds
6 editions - first published in 2004 -
Half a life: a novel
6 editions - first published in 2001
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