Mervyn Morris (essay date spring 2002)
SOURCE: Morris, Mervyn. “Sir Vidia and the Prize.” World Literature Today 76, no. 2 (spring 2002): 11-14.
[In the following essay, Morris discusses the mixed reaction to Naipaul's 2001 Nobel Prize for Literature and traces the author's attitude toward Trinidad in his writings.]
V. S. Naipaul has published novels, short stories, autobiography, letters,1 travel books, enquiries into history and politics, critical essays, personal essays, and innovative combinations of these forms. “My aim...
Source: Contemporary Literary Criticism, ©2005 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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