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VS Naipaul

Sir
V. S. Naipaul
TC
VS Naipal 2016 Dhaka.jpg
VS Naipaul in Dhaka in 2016
Born Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
(1932-08-17) 17 August 1932 (age 84)
Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago
Occupation Novelist, travel writer, essayist
Citizenship British
Period 1957–2010
Genre Novel, essay
Notable works A House for Mr Biswas
In a Free State
A Bend in the River
The Enigma of Arrival
Notable awards Booker Prize
1971
Nobel Prize in Literature
2001
Spouse

Patricia Ann Hale Naipaul (1955–96, her death)

Nadira Khannum Alvi Naipaul (1996–present)

Patricia Ann Hale Naipaul (1955–96, her death)

Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, TC (/ˈnpɔːl/ or /nˈpɔːl/; born 17 August 1932), is a Nobel Prize-winning British writer who was born in Trinidad. He is known for his comic early novels set in Trinidad and Tobago, his bleaker later novels of the wider world, and his autobiographical chronicles of life and travels. He has published more than thirty books, both of fiction and nonfiction, over some fifty years.

"Where there had been swamp at the foot of the Northern Range, with mud huts with earthen walls that showed the damp halfway up ... there was now the landscape of Holland.... Sugarcane as a crop had ceased to be important. None of the Indian villages were like villages I had known. No narrow roads; no dark, overhanging trees; no huts; no earth yards with hibiscus hedges; no ceremonial lighting of lamps, no play of shadows on the wall; no cooking of food in half-walled verandas, no leaping firelight; no flowers along gutters or ditches where frogs croaked the night away. "

V. S. Naipaul, familiarly Vidia Naipaul, was born on 17 August 1932 in Chaguanas in Trinidad. He was the second child of his mother Droapatie (née Capildeo) and father Seepersad Naipaul. In the 1880s, his grandparents emigrated from India to work as farm labourers. In the Indian immigrant community in Trinidad, Naipaul's father became an English-language journalist, and in 1929 began contributing articles to the Trinidad Guardian. In 1932, the year Naipaul was born, his father joined the staff as the Chaguanas correspondent. In "A prologue to an autobiography" (1983), Naipaul describes how his father's reverence for writers and for the writing life spawned his own dreams and aspirations to become a writer.


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