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V.S. Naipaul

Born in1932, in a small town in Trinidad into a family of Indian. 
His grandfather worked in a sugar cane plantation and his father was a journalist and writer. At the age of 18 Naipaul traveled to England where, after studying at University College at Oxford, he was awarded the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1953.
V. S. Naipaul is generally considered the leading novelist of English-speaking Caribbean and he is the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 2001. 
Naipaul's writings dealt with the cultural confusion of the Third World and the problem of an outsider.

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