Citizen of new world

Sir, - Your Editorial on the Nobel prize for literature (Oct. 13) was interesting. An exile myself and a fan of Mr. V.S. Naipaul, I could not agree more that the prize is about prose. From Adam onwards, we all are exiles in one way or another. The promised land exists only in our imagination; when we get back, we find that the promised green grass of home has long been paved over. Mr. Naipaul has become a citizen of the new world where boundaries don't matter. The fact is that someone whose ancestors came from India and who grew up in Trinidad, is now the winner of the highest accolade in literature.

Sabiha Ahmed,

Somerset, U.K.

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