FRANCE. Paris. 1992. The writer V.S.NAIPAUL during a visit to Paris in 1992. The English writer V.S. NAIPAUL, born 1932 in Trinidad, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in literature 2001 for his "incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories", including critical assessments of colonial rule and Muslim fundamentalism in non-Arab lands.