V. S. Naipaul

Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was born on 17 August 1932 in Chaguanas, in Trinidad, the grandson of workers who came from India under contract, and the son of a journalist. A scholarship holder, he left for Oxford in 1950, where he went through a depression, then presented a programme on West Indian writers for the BBC. A novelist and traveller in India, Africa and the Muslim world, admired and contested, he received the Booker Prize, was knighted and won the Nobel Prize in 2001. He died at home, in London, on 11 August 2018.

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• NovelThe Mystic MasseurV. S. Naipaul · 1957Literature