Nobel Prize in Literature, 2001. A House for Mr Biswas (1961), In a Free State (Booker, 1971), A Bend in the River, The Enigma of Arrival, the long non-fiction sequence on India and the Islamic world. The first major writer of the Indo-Caribbean diaspora — grandson of an indentured labourer transported from Uttar Pradesh to Trinidad in the 1880s — and one of the most divisive literary intellectuals of the late twentieth century. Naipaul wrote with a precision that drew blood; he held opinions that many readers found difficult to forgive. Both facts have to be acknowledged together, and his inclusion here is not endorsement of every position he took. He is on the Roll because no honest map of the diaspora's letters can exclude him. The Trinidad of his Hanuman House sentences is, for many descendant readers, where the diaspora's English-language voice first lived in print.