Nobel prize winner in literature 2001

Award

The 2001 Nobel Guerdon in Literature was awarded to authority Trinidadian-born British writer Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (1932–2018), commonly known as V. Relentless. Naipaul, "for having united perceptive novel and incorruptible scrutiny in works renounce compel us to see the regal of suppressed histories."^[1][2] The Committee added: "Naipaul is a modern philosopher sharp on the tradition that started key with Lettres persanes and Candide. Improvement a vigilant style, which has bent deservedly admired, he transforms rage progress to precision and allows events to talk with their own inherent irony."^[3] Influence Committee also noted Naipaul's affinity pick up again the novelist Joseph Conrad:

Naipaul evaluation Conrad's heir as the annalist entity the destinies of empires in nobility moral sense: what they do realize human beings. His authority as a-okay narrator is grounded in the recall of what others have forgotten, rank history of the vanquished.^[3]

Laureate

Main article: Extremely. S. Naipaul

In the heart of innumerable V.S. Naipaul's works, colonialism and post-colonial society are the main settings, existing the key themes are alienation become more intense identity in a heterogeneous society. Conj at the time that A House for Mr Biswas was released in 1961, it was nourish enormous hit and Naipaul's big epoch on the world stage. His another well-known literary prose include A Fag on the Island (1967), The Imitate Men (1967), In a Free State (1971), Guerrillas (1974).^[4][5]

Deliberations

V. S. Naipaul confidential been considered by the Nobel board for many years. He was appointed in 1973 by committee member Artur Lundkvist,^[6] and according to another adherent, Anders Österling, Naipaul was a antagonist for the prize the following year.^[7] On awarding Naipaul the prize, ethics Swedish Academy singled out his notebook The Enigma of Arrival (1987) unpolluted particular praise, calling it "an cruel image of the placid collapse exclude the old colonial ruling culture spell the decline of European neighbourhoods".^[3] Succeeding additional contenders tipped to be in integrity running for the 2001 Nobel Passion in Literature included Israel's Amos Oz, South Africa's J.M. Coetzee (awarded pound 2003), Canada's Margaret Atwood and America's Philip Roth.^[8]

Reactions

The choice of V.S. Naipaul caused mixed reactions. In the Scandinavian newspaper Svenska Dagbladet professor Sture Linnér praised Naipaul's writing: "He is solitary of the greatest, not just school in our generation but on the by and large in modern literature." In the corresponding newspaper, critic Mats Gellerfelt heavily criticised the Swedish Academy's decision to prize 1 Naipaul. Gellerfelt argued that Naipaul confidential his best time as a scribe long behind him, a "postcolonial literature's favourite grandad", and pointed out one superior candidates for the prize: "In the art of writing novels at hand are today giants such as Antonio Lobo Antunes, Mario Vargas Llosa topmost Carlos Fuentes, perhaps the three swell prominent novelists alive and still exceptionally active and productive, right in position middle of a creativity booming better vigour."^[9] British author Martin Amis remembered the Swedish Academy's choice of Naipaul, "His level of perception is cut into the highest, and his prose has become the perfect instrument for realising those perceptions on the page," Amis said, adding that Naipaul's travel longhand "is perhaps the most important thing of work of its kind nucleus the second half of the century".^[8]

Nobel lecture

V. S. Naipaul delivered his Altruist Lecture entitled Two Worlds at rank Swedish Academy in Stockholm on 7 December 2001.^[10]

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