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.
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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.
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.
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