Published: August 12, 2018
His comments about Islam, women and Africa were often unjustified, unpleasant and untrue – but that can be acknowledged alongside his gifts
The life of the greatest prose writer in the English language of the last 60 years has ended at the age of 85, though many of us were reluctant to celebrate VS Naipaul in such terms when he was alive and we may stop short at acknowledging his full significance when we mourn him. Some of us may not mourn him at all: a fate generally reserved for dictators.
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