2001 Nobel winner V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad but was living in Great Britain when he received the award. Much of Naipaul's work, which includes novels, essays, and travel writing, focuses on Britain's legacy of colonialism. The Nobel committee praised the "united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny" that "compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories," in works such as "A House for Mr. Biswas" and "The Enigma of Arrival."
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