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'Midnight's Children' falls under the genre of post-colonial writing, and there is a range of writers like V.S. Naipaul and Salman who popularised it. 'Midnight's Children' was incredibly important in this canon.
Satya Bhabha

Meaning of "Naipaul" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF NAIPAUL

Naipaul  [naɪˈpɔːl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NAIPAUL

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Naipaul is a noun.
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WHAT DOES NAIPAUL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Naipaul

V. S. Naipaul

Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, is a Trinidad-born Nobel Prize-winning British writer of Indian heritage known for his comic early novels set in Trinidad, his bleaker later novels of the wider world, and his autobiographical chronicles of life and travels. Naipaul has published more than 30 books, both of fiction and nonfiction, over some 50 years. Naipaul was married to Patricia Ann Hale from 1955 until her death in 1996. She served as first reader, editor, and critic of his writings. Naipaul dedicated his A House for Mr. Biswas to her. Naipaul married Nadira Naipaul, a former Pakistani journalist, in 1996.

Definition of Naipaul in the English dictionary

The definition of Naipaul in the dictionary is Sir V S. born 1932, Trinidadian novelist of Indian descent, living in Britain. His works include A House for Mr Biswas, In a Free State, which won the Booker Prize, A Bend in the River, The Enigma of Arrival, and Beyond Belief : Nobel prize for literature 2001.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH NAIPAUL


all
ɔːl
appal
əˈpɔːl
appall
əˈpɔːl
ball
bɔːl
baseball
ˈbeɪsˌbɔːl
basketball
ˈbɑːskɪtˌbɔːl
call
kɔːl
epaule
ɛˈpɔːl
fall
fɔːl
football
ˈfʊtˌbɔːl
hall
hɔːl
install
ɪnˈstɔːl
Nepal
nɪˈpɔːl
overall
ˈəʊvərˌɔːl
pall
pɔːl
Paul
pɔːl
pawl
pɔːl
Senegal
ˌsɛnɪˈɡɔːl
spall
spɔːl
spawl
spɔːl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE NAIPAUL

Nairnshire
Nairobi
NAIRU
Naismith
Naismith´s rule
naissant
naive
naive realism
naively
naiveness
naiveties
naivety
naivist
Najaf

WORDS THAT END LIKE NAIPAUL

backhaul
Barnaul
caul
Cisalpine Gaul
Gaul
haul
in the long haul
Jean Paul
keelhaul
long haul
long-haul
maul
overhaul
Saint Paul
Saul
shaul
short haul
short-haul
Vincent de Paul
waul

Synonyms and antonyms of Naipaul in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Naipaul» into 25 languages

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Find out the translation of Naipaul to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Naipaul from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Naipaul» in English.

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奈保尔
1,325 millions of speakers

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Naipaul
570 millions of speakers

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Naipaul
510 millions of speakers

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नायपॉल
380 millions of speakers
ar

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نايبول
280 millions of speakers

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Найпол
278 millions of speakers

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Naipaul
270 millions of speakers

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নাইপল
260 millions of speakers

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Naipaul
220 millions of speakers

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Naipaul
190 millions of speakers

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Naipaul
180 millions of speakers

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ナイポール
130 millions of speakers

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Naipaul
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Naipaul
85 millions of speakers
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Naipaul
80 millions of speakers

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Naipaul
75 millions of speakers

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नायपॉल
75 millions of speakers

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Naipaul
70 millions of speakers

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Naipaul
65 millions of speakers

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Naipaul
50 millions of speakers

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Найпол
40 millions of speakers

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Naipaul
30 millions of speakers
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Ναϊπούλ
15 millions of speakers
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Naipaul
14 millions of speakers
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Naipaul
10 millions of speakers
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Naipaul
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Naipaul

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Naipaul

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2 QUOTES WITH «NAIPAUL»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word Naipaul.
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Satya Bhabha
'Midnight's Children' falls under the genre of post-colonial writing, and there is a range of writers like V.S. Naipaul and Salman who popularised it. 'Midnight's Children' was incredibly important in this canon.
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Dinaw Mengestu
Most of my favorite writers are over forty, and so I suppose I'll only name a few of the writers whose work I find myself constantly returning to: Edward P. Jones, Marilynne Robinson, Kazuo Ishiguro, V. S. Naipaul, Toni Morrison, and Philip Roth.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NAIPAUL»

Discover the use of Naipaul in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Naipaul and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Miguel Street
Their lives (and the legends their neighbours construct around them) are rendered by V. S. Naipaul with Dickensian verve and Chekhovian compassion in this tender, funny novel. From the Trade Paperback edition.
V.S. Naipaul, 2012
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V. S. Naipaul: A Materialist Reading
This major reassessment of novelist V.S. Naipaul's work argues that although Naipaul regards himself as "rootless ... without a past, without ancestors," his writing is in fact rooted in the literary and historical traditions of the ...
Selwyn Reginald Cudjoe, 1988
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A Bend in the River
In the "brilliant novel" (The New York Times) V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man—an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a ...
V.S. Naipaul, 2010
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V.S. Naipaul: Critical Essays
The Present Volumes Of Papers On Naipaul, Led By Naipaul S Nobel Lecture, Offer Illuminating Perspectives And Interesting Explorations Into This Rich, Enigmatic, Sad, Hilarious, And Fascinating World Of Naipaul.
Mohit Kumar Ray, 2005
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V. S. Naipaul: The Indian Trilogy
This Study Breaks Fresh Ground In Exploring V.S. Naipaul S Three Books About His Travels In India, Treating These As A Series Whose Meanings Emerge Only When Considered Together.
Namrata Rathore Mahanta, 2004
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India: A Wounded Civilization: A Wounded Civilization
From the Trade Paperback edition.
V.S. Naipaul, 2012
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Postcolonial Situation in the Novels of V.S. Naipaul
The Present Study Gives A Comprehensive Account Of The Major Works Of Naipaul By Enquiring Into The Postcolonial Themes Of Alienation, Mimicry, Search For An Authentic Selfhood, Power And Freedom That Emerge From Their Reading.
Champa Rao Mohan, 2004
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On the Margins: The Art of Exile in V.S. Naipaul
Informed by the theoretical insights of Mikhail Bakhtin and Tzvetan Todorov, On the Margins offers close, nuanced readings of Naipaul's major works, from Miguel Street (1959) to India: A Million Mutinies Now (1990).
Timothy Weiss, 1992
9
The Writer and the World
From the Trade Paperback edition.
V.S. Naipaul, 2012
10
Half a Life
Half a Life is the story of Willie Chandran, whose father, heeding the call of Mahatma Gandhi, turned his back on his brahmin heritage and married a woman of low caste—a disastrous union he would live to regret, as he would the children ...
V.S. Naipaul, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NAIPAUL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Naipaul is used in the context of the following news items.
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September restart for case as law term set to close - Trinidad Express
WITH the closing of the law term scheduled to take place next Friday, the ongoing Vindra Naipaul-Coolman murder trial has been adjourned to ... «Trinidad & Tobago Express, Jul 15»
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Colm Tóibín scoops Hawthornden Literature Prize - RTÉ Ten
... the Hawthornden Prize has been awarded to many of the greatest writers of our time – Graham Greene, VS Naipaul, William Trevor, to name ... «RTE.ie, Jul 15»
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Rewind from the creepy dolls in 'Ahalya' to the animated film 'Alma'
What bonds 007, an Indian raag and VS Naipaul? ... that was to have been made in the 1950s on VS Naipaul's novel A House for Ms Biswas. «Scroll.in, Jul 15»
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Inside Karachi's strange North Korean embassy | GQ India
So many of the great city books are told by outsiders – Salvador by Joan Didion, An Area Of Darkness by VS Naipaul, any of dirty old Richard ... «GQ India, Jul 15»
5
Will this Jeremy Corbyn poll break the Labour fever?
Those that are baffled by this are underestimating how much Blair's creation of a “dumbed down, plebeian society” (V.S. Naipaul) has created ... «Spectator.co.uk, Jul 15»
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Pollyanna in politics
Said clerisy is now orthodoxy, and is still obsessively angry over Naipaul's Mimic Men and Middle Passage. And its solution to the big national ... «Trinidad Guardian, Jul 15»
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Businessman charged with having unlicensed pistol, ammo
Naipaul Basdeoram, 25, of Lot 3 Good Hope Railway Embankment, East Coast Demerara, was charged with having possession of a .380 pistol ... «Stabroek News, Jul 15»
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Aatish Taseer
Mr. Naipaul's father was also a journalist in Trinidad. “And it was from the sight of him trying to write,” Mr. Naipaul recounted years later, “and ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
9
Western Lit, shot to death by 'trigger warnings' – POLITICO
... dragger Philip Larkin (racism, sexism, classism). Or that all-purpose hater V.S. Naipaul (you name it, he's said something offensive about it). «Politico, Jul 15»
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8 Times It's Totally OK To Break Up With Someone Based On His Or …
This guy secretly agrees with V.S. Naipaul about women writers and is given to saying things like, “If women really wanted to write for The New York Review of ... «Bustle, Jul 15»

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