Nobel laureate
V. S. Naipaul — Nobel Prize in Literature 2001
“for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories”
Prize motivation
“for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories”
The Swedish Academy awarded V. S. Naipaul the 2001 Nobel Prize in Literature for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories.
Other laureates of the 2000s
Sources & data
- Nobel Prize API (CC0).