Caribbean writer wins literary prize
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Naipaul, 60, received the British Literature Prize at an awards ceremony in London.
The biennial prize, Britain's biggest literature award in money terms, was launched last year by the Arts Council, the agency handling government arts funding, to honour sustained achievement by a living writer rather than a specific book.
Naipaul is its first recipient. The author of acclaimed works such as "A Free State" and "A Bend in the River", Naipaul has already won Britain's most prestigious literary award, the 20,000 pound Booker Prize, and the T.S. Eliot award for creative writing.
