FBI 'kills off' Naipaul

Indian-origin novelist VS Naipaul has been killed off by the FBI in court documents filed in a case against suspected Islamist terrorists.

Indian-origin novelist VS Naipaul has been "killed off" by the FBI in court documents filed in a case against suspected Islamist terrorists.

The very-much-alive British writer is referred to as "the late V S Naipaul, a Nobel prize winning author" in the footnote of sworn testimony from an FBI agent.

Slip-Up: The very-much-alive writer is referred to as 'the late V S Naipaul, a Nobel prize winning author'

The error is included in documents filed at a court in Chicago for the trial of two men accused of plotting to attack staff of the Danish newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.

VS Naipaul is mentioned in connection with his wife Lady Naipaul, a journalist and the sister of a Pakistani general who was allegedly killed by Islamic militants last year.

The slip-up in the footnotes of evidence was spotted after the documents were unsealed on Tuesday.

Naipaul (77) is widely considered to be one of the finest living novelists writing in English. His works include A House for Mr Biswas, A Bend in the River and The Enigma of Arrival.

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001.