V. S. Naipaul

Trinidad-born British writer V. S. Naipaul wrote fiction and nonfiction in English, and his breakthrough novel was A House for Mr Biswas, published in 1961. He won the Booker Prize in 1971 for In a Free State and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. His nonfiction includes India: A Wounded Civilization, a book that weighs a nation's history against its modern identity. He died in 2018.