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Article: British author wins Nobel literature prize.(News)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- October 12, 2001
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BRITISH author V.S. Naipaul - who just days ago criticised the "calamitous effect" of Islam - has been awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.
The head of the prize academy conceded that from outside it could be seen as a political decision after the US attacks, but pointed out the writer's views were not so clear-cut.
Trinidad-born Naipaul, 69, landed a prize of more than pounds 650,000 as he joined a select band of authors including Jean-Paul Sartre, Samuel Beckett and Rudyard Kipling.
The academy chose him for "having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories".