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British author V.S. Naipaul poses at his home near Salisbury, England, Thursday Oct. 11, 2001, after it was announced that he has been awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize for Literature. The 69-year-old, Trinidad-born writer won the award for "having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories", according to the prize academy. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/PA/Chris Ison) UNITED KINGDOM OUT, MAGAZINES OUT