Nobel Prize in Literature 2001
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Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
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The Nobel Prize in Literature 2001 was awarded to Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul "for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories"
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