Nobel Prize in Literature: Which Latin American writers have won?

7. V.S. Naipaul, Trinidad (2001)

Though he has spent the majority of his life in England, V.S. Naipaul was born in Chaguanas, a town on the Caribbean island Trinidad. His earliest novels pay homage to his birthplace, but later works explore moral codes and question reader perspectives through settings worldwide: Africa, the Middle East, India, and beyond. The Nobel Prize went to Naipaul “for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories.”

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