CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Author VS Naipaul won the 2001 Nobel Prize in Literature “for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel people to see the presence of suppressed histories". While he was born in Trinidad in 1932, he belongs to an Indian descent.

Detailed explanation-2: -In his masterpiece The Enigma of Arrival Naipaul visits the reality of England like an anthropologist studying some hitherto unexplored native tribe deep in the jungle.

Detailed explanation-3: -The 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the British writer Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) “in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author."

Detailed explanation-4: -William Faulkner is awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, Bertrand Russell the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1950.