The 2001 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, FTP name this Trinidadian author.
A character in one of his stories compares South Africa to "a John Ford western." and one of his novels ends with a Hindu ceremony for the death of his sister in a section entitled "The Ceremony of Farewell." The career of the exiled Ralph Singh is followed in his novel The Mimic Men, and Richard's retirement from Excal is the focus of his Mr. Stone and the Knights Companion. Ferdinand represents the "New Man of Africa" in his work A Bend in the River, and fires and storms destroy two attempts by the six-fingered title character to own a home in his novel A House for Mr. Biswas. The 2001 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, FTP name this Trinidadian author.
A character in one of his stories compares South Africa to "a John Ford western."
Vidiadhar Surajprasad {Naipaul}