writer und Nobel laureate (1932-2018). Autograph quotation and drawing signed. Turin. 4to. 1 p. Printed letterhead „premio grinzane cavour“.
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Autograph drawing and sentiment by V. S. Naipaul who has added several characteristic pen-and-ink sketches, including a stylized palm tree, a heart-shaped ornamental motif, and two smaller decorative drawings, accompanied by brief handwritten notes in Italian. Signed boldly at the foot and dated 4 August 2001. A highly unusual and visually attractive autograph by the 2001 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate, executed in the very year he received the Nobel Prize. Although renowned for the precision and restraint of his prose, Naipaul only exceptionally embellished his signatures with drawings, making such autograph pieces considerably scarcer than ordinary signed books or letters. Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (1932–2018) was one of the foremost English-language writers of the twentieth century.
Born in Trinidad to an Indian family, he explored themes of colonialism, displacement, identity, and cultural encounter in such works as A House for Mr Biswas, In a Free State, and A Bend in the River. He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Literature "for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories.".
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Autograph letter signed and 1 typescript signed.
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Letter written in response to an "emblematic card" that Sontrop had sent to Naipaul after it had become known that he had won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2001. "You were among my best publishers, and I cherish your kindness. The prize was quite unexpected. I thought that the political consent had slowed too strongly against me. In those days you were a supporter, and that does not go unremembered. […]“. Included: Typescript letter signed "Yours ever Vidia N.", to [typescript:] "Dear Theo [Sontrop]", dated "2 December 1991", commenting favourably on the Dutch paperback edition of A House for Mr Biswas that Sontrop had sent him and sending Sontrop "the reprinted Updike review of the Loss of El Dorado from the New Yorker" and calling his attention to the review of the book by Gregory Rabassa.
Autograph letter signed.
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Letter, signed twice (above the printed letterhead and at the end of the letter), responding to the congratulatory letter of the Dutch publisher Theo Sontrop on occasion of the knighthood that had been granted to Naipaul in 1990. "It is a very great gesture by the country to me. I came to England in 1950 to be a writer. It is nice, in 1990, to be given a [...] honour for literature. I am delighted you are giving Among the Believers another run. Incidentally, Rushdie reviewed it for one of the glossy magazines & thought it was written to reassure the Americans!"