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Which Nobel laureate authored the novel 'A House for Mr. Biswas' ?

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Which Nobel laureate authored the novel 'A House for Mr. Biswas' ?
posted Feb 26, 2015 by Sidharth Malhotra

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Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, ( born 17 August 1932), is a Trinidad-born Nobel Prize-winning British writer known for his comic early novels set in Trinidad, his bleaker later novels of the wider world, and his autobiographical chronicles of life and travels.Naipaul has published more than 30 books, both of fiction and nonfiction, over some 50 years.

Naipaul was married to Patricia Ann Hale from 1955 until her death in 1996. She served as first reader, editor, and critic of his writings. Naipaul dedicated his A House for Mr. Biswas to her. Naipaul married Nadira Naipaul, a former Pakistani journalist, in 1996.

answer Feb 26, 2015 by Vrije Mani Upadhyay
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