Nobel prize-winning author VS Naipaul dies aged 85

British author V.S. Naipaul in Salisbury, England in 2001. The Trinidad-born Nobel laureate died on Saturday in London. [AP]

Trinidad-born British author VS Naipaul, who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 2001, has died at his home in London aged 85, the BBC reported on Saturday.

Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, who began writing in the 1950s, won numerous coveted literary awards during his career, during which he wrote critically acclaimed novels such as A House for Mr Biswas, In a Free State and A Bend in the River.