Naipaul wins Nobel prize

STOCKHOLM, OCT. 11. The Trinidad-born British author, Sir V.S. Naipaul, won the Nobel Literature prize today for works that ``compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories,'' the Swedish Academy said.

``Sir Naipaul is a literary circumnavigator, only ever really at home in himself, in his inimitable voice. Singularly unaffected by literary fashion and models he has wrought existing genres into a style of his own, in which the customary distinctions between fiction and non-fiction are of subordinate importance,'' the Academy said in its citation.

- AFP

Our Special Correspondent reports from New Delhi:

The President, Mr. K. R. Narayanan, and the Prime Minister, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee, have congratulated Sir Naipaul. The President, said: ``On behalf of the people of India and on my own behalf, I convey our heartiest congratulations on this great honour bestowed on you.''

Mr. Vajpayee said ``Sir Naipaul's literary sensitivity, transcending all barriers has blossomed into an all- encompassing concern for humanity. His incisive treatment of contemporary realities has never been bereft of a humane perspective.''

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