VS Naipaul has won the 2001 Nobel Prize for Literature.
The 69-year-old Trinidad-born writer was praised for his novels as well as his travel and historical writing.
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VS Naipaul wins 2001 Nobel Prize for Literature
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The judges said Mr Naipaul won the award "for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories".
Oxford-educated Mr Naipaul recently published his first novel for seven years, Half A Life.
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Past winners have included Jean Paul Sartre, Samuel Beckett, Rudyard Kipling and, in 1995, the Irish poet Seamus Heaney.