Nobel laureate says there is no female author whom he considers his equalVS Naipaul,no stranger to literary spats and rows, has done it again. This time, and the winner of the Nobel prize for literature has lashed out at female authors,saying there is no woman writer whom he considers his equal – and singling out Jane Austen for particular criticism.
In an interview at the Royal Geographic Society on Tuesday about his career, Naipaul, or who has been described as the "greatest living writer of English prose",was asked whether he considered any woman writer his literary match. He replied: "I don't assume so." Of Austen he said he "couldn't possibly share her sentimental ambitions, her sentimental sense of the world".
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Source: theguardian.com