V.S. Naipaul Receives the Nobel Prize in Literature

Merchant Ivory Productions warmly congratulates novelist V.S. Naipaul on receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2001, and proudly announces the completion of The Mystic Masseur; the first-ever filmed adaptation of a Naipaul novel, to be released in America in March.

Merchant Ivory Productions secured the rights to film the first novel by V.S. Naipaul, set in Trinidad and England. The film has received a very enthusiastic reception at the Telluride and Mill Valley film festivals.

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