<\/a>VS Naipaul, no stranger to literary spats and rows, has done it again. This time, 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 \u2013 and singling out Jane Austen for particular criticism.\n
\nIn an interview at the Royal Geographic Society on Tuesday about his career, Naipaul, who has been described as the “greatest living writer of English prose”, was asked if he considered any woman writer his literary match. He replied: “I don’t think so.” Of Austen he said he “couldn’t possibly share her sentimental ambitions, her sentimental sense of the world”.<\/p>\n
He felt that women writers were “quite different”. He said: “I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not. I think [it is] unequal to me.”<\/p>\n
The author, who was born in Trinidad, said this was because of women’s “sentimentality, the narrow view of the world”. “And inevitably for a woman, she is not a complete master of a house, so that comes over in her writing too,” he said. ***<\/p>\n VS Naipaul’s attack ‘just made me laugh’ says Diana Athill<\/a> Nobel laureate says there is no female author whom he considers his equal By Amy Fallon The Guardian UK, June 02, 2011 VS Naipaul, no stranger to literary spats and rows, has done it again. This time, the winner of the Nobel prize for literature has lashed out at female authors, saying there is no … Continue reading VS Naipaul finds no woman writer his literary match \u2013 not even Jane Austen<\/span>
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\nFormer publisher rubbished by Naipaul for writing ‘feminine tosh’ says she is not taking his criticism seriously<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"