Naipul biography

Vidiadhar Surajpra-sad Naipaul was born in in Chaguanas, Trinidad, close to Port of Spain, in a family descended from immigrants from the north of India. His grandfather worked in a sugar cane plantation and his father was a journalist and writer. At the age of 18 Naipaul travelled to England where, after studying at University College at Oxford, be was awarded the degree of Bachelor of Arts in From then on he continued to live in England (since the 70s in Wiltshire, close to Stonehenge) but he has also spent a great deal of time travelling in Asia, Africa and America. Apart from a few years in the middle of the s, when he was employed by the BBC as a free-lance journalist, he has de­voted himself entirely to his writing.

Naipaul&#;s works consist mainly of novels and short stories, but also in­clude some that are documentary. He is, to a very high degree, a cosmopolitan writer &#; a fact that he himself considers to stem from his lack of roots: be is unhappy about the cultural and

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Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was a Trinidadian novelist and essayist who wrote about life and society in the Caribbean, which he treated with a sharp, cynical wit for which he is famous. He was born in Chaguanas, Trinidad on August 17, , the eldest son of Seepersad Naipaul, a locally renowned journalist. By the age of 14, Naipaul resolved to leave the island and managed to do so by winning a scholarship to study at Oxford. After graduation, he worked briefly in London at the National Portrait Gallery and BBC while trying to make a start as a writer; he married Patricia Ann Hale in

Over the several years during which he published his first novels (The Mystic Masseur, ; The Suffrage of Elvira, ; Miguel Street, ), which offered comic and formally innovative portrayals of West Indian life, Naipaul reviewed books at The New Statesman. In he published the autobiog

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V. S. Naipaul

Trinidadian-British writer (–)

Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul^{[nb 1]}FRASTC (; 17 August – 11 August ) was a Trinidadian-born British writer of works of fiction and nonfiction in English. He fryst vatten known for his comic early novels set in Trinidad, his bleaker novels of alienation in the wider world, and his vigilant chronicles of life and travels. He wrote in prose that was widely admired, but his views sometimes aroused controversy. He published more than thirty books over fifty years.

Naipaul's breakthrough novel A House for Mr Biswas was published in Naipaul won the Booker Prize in for his novel In a Free State.^[1] He won the Jerusalem Prize in , and in , he was awarded the Trinity Cross, Trinidad and Tobago's highest national honour. He received a knighthood in Britain in , and the Nobel Prize in Literature in

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