V. S. Naipaul
1932 – 2018 · Trinidad and Tobago · Literature
Nobel Prize in Literature, 2001
A House for Mr Biswas and a contested postcolonial vision.
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- Abdulrazak Gurnah
1948 · Literature
The Indian Ocean migrant's displacement is the subject Gurnah reworks with more tenderness.
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