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- Surprise! V.S. Naipaul doesn’t think much of women writers.
Nobel-prize winning author V.S. Naipaul claims that there is no woman writer who could serve as as his literary match. Described by some as "the greatest living writer of English pose," the Trinidad-born Mr. Naipaul sparked controversy in an interview at the Royal Geographic Society this week, saying the work of female writers, even famed and beloved author Jane Austen, is inferior. The 78-year-old said he couldn't share Austen’s “sentimental ambitions, her sentimental sense of the world.”
Mr. Naipaul believes that women writers are "quite different" and says he can read a paragraph and know instantly whether it was written by a woman or not. He added: "And inevitably for a woman, she is not a complete master of a house, so that comes over in her writing too."
Acclaimed for works such as his partly-autobiographical novel “A House for Mr Biswas” as well as his travel writing and essays, Mr. Naipaul also commented on the work of his female publisher. "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," he added.
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