Posts Tagged ‘V.S. Naipaul’
1979
Jean Baird uploads 1979, the year when V.S. Naipaul should have won, but for a lot of poor reasons, didn’t.
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1971 Jury: John Fowles, Saul Bellow, Lady Antonia Fraser, Philip Toynbee and John Gross. I assume we all know the first three (how did they get rid of Dame West?) Philip Toynbee was a British writer and journalist. He wrote experimental novels, and distinctive verse novels, one of which was an epic called Pantaloon. He…
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