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V S Naipaul

The Nobel Prize-winning author talks about his decision to leave Trinidad to pursue a career in writing, the influence of his journalist father, composing his first published work on borrowed paper at the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ and why he doesn’t mind his irascible public persona. (From 2001)

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