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V.S. Naipaul

V.S. Naipaul

How to pronounce V.S. Naipaul: V S neye-PAWL

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  • Nadeem Aslam

    Nadeem Aslam

    Nadeem Aslam was born in Pakistan in 1966 and moved to Britain at age 14. His family left Pakistan to escape President Zia's regime.

    His novel Maps for Lost Lovers, winner of the Kuriyama Prize, took him more than a decade ... (more)

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    Half A Life

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  • Kiran Desai

    Kiran Desai

    Kiran Desai is the bestselling author of two novels, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard and The Inheritance of Loss, which won both the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Born in India, she came to the US ... (more)

  • Abdulrazak Gurnah

    Abdulrazak Gurnah

    Abdulrazak Gurnah is the 2021 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is the author of ten previous novels, including Afterlives (named a 2022 Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, Washington Post, TIME, and The ... (more)

    If you enjoyed:
    Half A Life

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    Theft
    by Abdulrazak Gurnah

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