a person who creates portraits, especially an artist who specializes in portrait painting "The portrayer captured the subject's likeness with remarkable skill."
With its humorous language and wonderful characterization, this book won the author the Somerset Maugham Award in 1961 and established his fame as "a portrayer of street life". 该作品语言机智幽默、描述生动真实,曾荣获1961年的毛姆文学奖,并为奈保尔带来了“街头生活作家”的声誉。