Indian-origin novelist VS Naipaul has been "killed off" by the FBI in court documents filed in a case against suspected Islamist terrorists.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />
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<p align="center"><span style="font-size: 8pt"><strong>Slip-Up:</strong> The very-much-alive writer is referred to as 'the late V S Naipaul, a Nobel prize winning author'</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>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. <br /><br />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.<br /><br />The slip-up in the footnotes of evidence was spotted after the documents were unsealed on Tuesday.<br /><br />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. <br /><br />He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001.<br />

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