Male Nobel Prize winner says no woman is his equal.

Nobel Prize winner, V.S. Naipaul--known popularly in suburban books clubs as "Who's V.S. Naipaul?"--is famous among the literary set.

But it might be safe to say his fan base among women has dwindled slightly.

According to Salon, Naipaul was interviewed recently, and suggests that he can detect a woman writer whenever he reads. This might be because of psychic premonitions he's always kept on the down-low (how mysterious!)--or, possibly, he's just a misogynist. But it's more fun to pretend a Nobel Prize winner in literature has psychic abilities. It spices things up.

Anyway, Naipaul kept the misogyny bandwagon rolling in the interview, saying that no woman writer, alive or dead, was his equal, mainly because of "sentimentality, the narrow view of the world." It's funny when he talks about narrow views of the world because he's misogynistic. See how that works? Naipaul is a comedian! It's open-mic night at The Chuckle Hut!

His views on no woman equal includes Jane Austen--who he backhandedly comments that he couldn't "share her sentimental ambitions, her sentimental sense of the world."

At least Austen had sense. I'm going to go on a limb and say Naipaul long lost his.