Which of the following statements correctly describes the recognition and literary significance of The Mystic Masseur by V. S. Naipaul?
Won John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for satirical Trinidadian portrayal
The Mystic Masseur (1957) was V. S. Naipaul’s first published novel – a comic, satirical story of Ganesh Ramsumair, a masseur who rises to become a politician in colonial Trinidad.
It won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1958 for its witty portrayal of Trinidadian Indian society.
Naipaul received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001 for his whole body of work, not for this novel alone.
He won the Booker Prize in 1971 for In a Free State, and he never received the Sahitya Akademi Award, which is given to Indian writers.
The Somerset Maugham Award went to his book Miguel Street (in 1961), not to this novel.
Hence, Won John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for satirical Trinidadian portrayal.
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