{"id":11202,"date":"2018-08-12T01:36:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T01:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11202"},"modified":"2018-08-12T01:36:10","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T01:36:10","slug":"v-s-naipaul-nobel-winning-novelist-dies-at-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11202","title":{"rendered":"V.S. Naipaul, Nobel-winning novelist, dies at 85"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Nobel Prize-winning novelist V.S. Naipaul, who was born in Trinidad but lived most of his life in England, died in his London home Saturday, Britain&#8217;s Press Association reported, citing Naipaul&#8217;s wife.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">He was 85.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">In awarding him the $1 million <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/literature\/laureates\/2001\/press.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nobel Prize in Literature<\/a> in 2001, the Swedish Academy praised Naipaul for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2001\/WORLD\/europe\/10\/11\/nobel.literature\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">combining genres into his own style<\/a> that compels readers &#8220;to see the presence of suppressed histories. &#8230; In a vigilant style, (he) transforms rage into precision and allows events to speak with their own inherent irony.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Nobel Prize-winning novelist V.S. Naipaul, who was born in Trinidad but lived most of his life in England, died in his London home Saturday, Britain&#8217;s Press Association reported, citing Naipaul&#8217;s wife.He was 85.In awarding him the $1 million Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001, the Swedish Academy praised Naipaul for combining genres into his own&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}