{"id":1280,"date":"2001-10-11T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-10-11T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/10\/11\/2001-10-11-vs-naipaul-awarded-2001-nobel-prize-for-literature\/"},"modified":"2001-10-11T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-10-11T12:00:00","slug":"2001-10-11-vs-naipaul-awarded-2001-nobel-prize-for-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/10\/11\/2001-10-11-vs-naipaul-awarded-2001-nobel-prize-for-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"V.S. Naipaul Awarded 2001 Nobel Prize for Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/reuters\/world\/international\/nobel-literature.html\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>STOCKHOLM, October 11, 2001: Trinidad-born British writer V.S. Naipaul won the 2001 Nobel prize for literature on Thursday. Naipaul, long tipped for the prestigious award, won the $1 million prize for combining existing genres into a style of his own in works that compel readers &#8220;to see the presence of suppressed histories,&#8221; the Swedish Academy said in its citation. Naipaul, considered the leading novelist to emerge from the English-speaking Caribbean, is a master of English prose style who is known for his studies of alienation &#8212; an individual&#8217;s sense of being on the outside of society. His works range from short stories to novels, to travel writing.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE STOCKHOLM, October 11, 2001: Trinidad-born British writer V.S. Naipaul won the 2001 Nobel prize for literature on,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}