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No woman writer can equal me: Naipaul

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V S Naipaul is no stranger to controversy, and with his latest provocative remark, 2001 Nobel literature winner V S Naipaul has sparked worldwide reactions. In the controversial statement, he said women writers are not equal to him. He called them writers possessing "narrow view of the world".

In an interview at the Royal Geographic Society on Tuesday, he was questioned if he considers any woman writer matching his talent and Naipaul said, “I don’t think so”. Speaking of Jane Austen he said, he "couldn't possibly share her sentimental ambitions, her sentimental sense of the world". He added that women writers are "quite different". "I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not. I think [it is] unequal to me."

Naipaul criticized women for "sentimentality, the narrow view of the world". "And inevitably for a woman, she is not a complete master of a house, so that comes over in her writing too," he said. He also said, "My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh. I don't mean this in any unkind way."

Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932 and is the descendant of indentured laborers shipped from India. He is best known for his novels focusing on the legacy of the British Empire`s colonialism. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001.

 V.S. Naipaul has authored several travel books and is popularly known as “a master of modern English prose”. The Times ranked Naipaul seventh on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".

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Posted by Prashant Gandhi on 4 June, 2011 9:15:49 AM IST #