V. S. Naipaul
Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul TC (17 Ogos 1932 – 11 Ogos 2018), juga dikenali sebagai Vidia Naipaul atau V. S. Naipaul, adalah seorang penulis kelahiran Trinidad yang memenangi Hadiah Nobel dalam Kesusasteraan pada tahun 2001. Beliau dilahirkan dalam keluarga berketurunan India, tinggal di England sebagai orang dewasa, dan mengembara merentasi serta menulis mengenai topik berkaitan, India, Afrika, dunia Islam, dan Selatan dan Amerika Utara dalam dalam karya-karya fiksyen dan bukan fiksyennya.
V. S. Naipaul | |
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 VS Naipaul in Dhaka in 2016 | |
| Lahir | Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul[nb 1] 17 Ogos 1932 Chaguanas, British Trinidad and Tobago |
| Meninggal dunia | 11 Ogos 2018 (umur 85) London, England |
| Pekerjaan | Novelist, travel writer, essayist |
| Warganegara | British[1] |
| Tempoh | 1957–2010 |
| Genre | Novel, essay |
| Subjek | |
| Bapa | Seepersad Naipaul |
| Karya terkenal | |
| Anugerah | Booker Prize 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature 2001 |
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Bibliografi sunting
- Fiksyen
- The Mystic Masseur (1957)[2]
- The Suffrage of Elvira (1958)[3]
- Miguel Street (1959)
- A House for Mr Biswas (1961)
- Mr Stone and the Knights Companion (1963)
- The Mimic Men (1967)
- A Flag on the Island (1967)
- In a Free State (1971) – Booker Prize Winner
- Guerrillas (1975)
- A Bend in the River (1979)
- The Enigma of Arrival (1987)
- A Way in the World (1994)
- Half a Life (2001)
- The Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book: And Other Comic Inventions (Stories) (2002: collection comprising The Suffrage of Elvira, Mr Stone and the Knights Companion and A Flag on the Island)
- Magic Seeds (2004)[4]
- Bukan fiksyen
- The Middle Passage: Impressions of Five Societies – British, French and Dutch in the West Indies and South America (1962)
- An Area of Darkness (1964)[5]
- The Loss of El Dorado (1969)
- The Overcrowded Barracoon and Other Articles (1972)
- India: A Wounded Civilization (1977)
- A Congo Diary (1980)
- The Return of Eva Perón and the Killings in Trinidad (1980)[6]
- Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey (1981)
- Finding the Centre: Two Narratives (1984)[7]
- A Turn in the South (1989)
- India: A Million Mutinies Now (1990)
- Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions among the Converted Peoples (1998)
- Between Father and Son: Family Letters (1999, edited by Gillon Aitken)
- The Writer and the World: Essays (2002)
- A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling (2007)
- The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief (2010)
Nota sunting
- ^ Meaning: vidiādhar (Hindi "possessed of learning," (p. 921) from vidyā (Sanskrit "knowledge, learning," p. 921) + dhar (Sanskrit "holding, supporting," p. 524)); sūrajprasād (from sūraj (Hindi "sun," p. 1036) + prasād (Sanskrit "gift, boon, blessing," p. 666)) from McGregor, R. S. (1993). The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary. Oxford University Press.
Rujukan sunting
- ^ "The Nobel Prize in Literature 2001 – V. S. Naipaul". NobelPrize.org. Diarkibkan daripada yang asal pada 4 Mei 2017. Dicapai pada 7 Mei 2017. Unknown parameter
|deadurl=ignored (bantuan) - ^ "V.S. Naipaul - Bibliography". Nobelprize.org. Dicapai pada 12 August 2018.
- ^ "A Country Still in the MNaking". New York Times. Dicapai pada 12 August 2018.
- ^ "V.S. Naipaul". Pan McMillan. Diarkibkan daripada yang asal pada 2016-08-11. Dicapai pada 12 August 2018.
- ^ "You can't read this book". The Hindu. Dicapai pada 5 July 2015.
- ^ "From the Third World". New York Times. Dicapai pada 12 August 2018.
- ^ "The Enchantment of Vidia Naipaul". LRB.co.uk. Dicapai pada 12 August 2018.