V.S. Naipaul
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Born | 17 August 1932 (age 78)
Chaguanas, Trinidad |
Occupation | Novelist, essayist |
Nationality | Trinidadian |
Genres | Novel |
Literary movement | Realism, Postcolonialism |
Notable work(s) | A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, The Enigma of Arrival,In A Free State |
Notable award(s) | Booker Prize
1971Nobel Prize in Literature
2001 |
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Rudyard Kipling |
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Photograph from 1914 |
Born | Joseph Rudyard Kipling
30 December 1865Bombay, Bombay Presidency,British India |
Died | 18 January 1936 (aged 70)Middlesex Hospital, London, England |
Occupation | Short story writer, novelist, poet, journalist |
Nationality | British |
Genres | Short story, novel, children's literature, poetry, travel literature, science fiction |
Notable work(s) | The Jungle Book
Just So Stories
Kim
If—, Gunga Din |
Notable award(s) | Nobel Prize in Literature
1907 |
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