Schriftsteller und Nobelpreisträger (1932-2018). Autograph letter signed and 1 typescript signed. Dairy Cottage, Salterton, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP4 6AL. 4to. 1 1/2 pp. Printed letterhead. With orig. envelope.
1.800 €
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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..
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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!"