Nobel Prize-Winning Author VS Naipaul Dies: Here Are Some Of His Famous Quotes

Nobel Prize-winning novelist V S Naipaul, known for works like A Bend in the River and The Enigma of Arrival, died in London on Saturday.

Born in 1932 to a family that had arrived in Trinidad from India in the 1880s, Naipaul was known for his writings on colonialism and decolonisation, exile and the struggles in the developing world. Naipaul published more than 30 works spanning both fiction and nonfiction. Some of his famous books are A House for Mr Biswas, India: A Million Mutinies Now, The Middle Passage and The Overcrowded Barracoon. His book An Area of Darkness is a semi-autobiographical account of a trip to India in the 1960s.

Naipaul travelled to the Muslim-majority countries of Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia and Indonesia for his books Among the Believers (1981) and Beyond Belief (1998). His work on Islam, earned him the rage of left-wing “intellectuals”.

Here are some of his famous quotes:

1) From ‘India: A Wounded Civilization’ published in 1976:

2) He told The Hindu in 1998:

3) From ‘India: A Million Mutinies Now’ published in 1990:

4) On Ayodhya, according to Patrick French:

5) From ‘The Enigma of Arrival’ published in 1987:

Naipaul was awarded the 1971 Booker Prize for his novel In a Free State and in 2001 won the Nobel Prize for Literature. His first book, The Mystic Masseur, was published in 1957. His most celebrated novel, A House for Mr Biswas, which took more than three years to write, was published in the year 1961.