Article: Nobel Prize for a very private author VS Naipaul.

Byline: Anthony Barnes

V.S. Naipaul yesterday won possibly the world's best known writing honour as he took the Nobel Prize for literature.

The 69-year-old, Trinidad-born writer, landed the pounds 650,000 award for 'having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories', according to the prize academy.

Oxford-educated Naipaul recently published his first novel for seven years Half A Life.

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