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Miguel Street
1st edition coverAuthor(s) V. S. Naipaul Country Trinidad Publisher André Deutsch Publication date 1959 Pages 176 Miguel Street is a semi-autobiographical novel by V. S. Naipaul set in wartime Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Naipaul wrote it while employed at the BBC using a BBC typewriter and "rustle-free paper."[1]
Miguel Street won the 1961 Somerset Maugham Award.
References
Books by V. S. Naipaul Novels: The Mystic Masseur • The Suffrage of Elvira • Miguel Street • A House for Mr Biswas • Mr Stone and the Knights Companion • A Flag on the Island • The Mimic Men • In a Free State • Guerrillas • A Bend in the River • The Enigma of Arrival • A Way in the World • Half a Life • Magic Seeds
Non-fiction: The Middle Passage • An Area of Darkness • The Loss of El Dorado • The Overcrowded Barracoon and other articles • India: A Wounded Civilization • A Congo Diary • The Return of Eva Peron and the Killings in Trinidad • Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey • Finding the Centre • Reading and Writing: A Personal Account • A Turn in the South •India: A Million Mutinies Now • Bombay • Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions among the Converted Peoples • Between Father and Son: Family Letters • The Writer and the World: Essays • Literary Occasions: Essays • A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling
Categories:- Novels by V. S. Naipaul
- 1959 novels
- Novels set in Trinidad and Tobago
- British young adult novels
- 1950s novel stubs
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