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    V. S. Naipaul

    Trinidadian-British writer (1932–2018)

    Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul[nb 1]FRASTC (; 17 August 1932 – 11 August 2018) was a Trinidadian-born British writer of works of fiction and nonfiction in English. He is 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 1961. Naipaul won the Booker Prize in 1971 for his novel In a Free State.[1] He won the Jerusalem Prize in 1983, and in 1990, he was awarded the Trinity Cross, Trinidad and Tobago's highest national honour. He received a knighthood in Britain in 1990, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001.

    Life and career

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    Background and early life

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    Vidiadhar Surajpra-sad Naipaul was born in1932 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 reporter and writer. At the age of 18 Naipaul travelled to England where, after studying at University College at Oxford, be was awarded the grad of Bachelor of Arts in 1953. 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 1950s, when he was employed by the BBC as a free-lance journalist, he has de­voted himself entirely to his writing.

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    Obituary :

    V.S. Naipaul was a prolific Indo-Trinidadian writer who published 30 books in a career spanning 50 years. While he wrote complex political novels, travel books, essays and non-fiction, his comic novels set in Trinidad, like Miguel Street and A House for Mr Biswas, are still probably his most famous and loved. Guerrillas, set in an unnamed Caribbean island (which some say was a pastiche of Jamaica and Trinidad), was a bleak story which reimagined the life of Michael X and the murder of Gail Benson. The Enigma of Arrival was his most autobiographical book and also much lauded. Naipaul won the Booker Prize for his novella In a Free State in 1971 and in 2001 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The press release said of him: ‘Naipaul is Conrad’s heir as the annalist of the destinies of empires in the moral sense: what they do to human beings. His authority as a narrator is grounded in the memory of what others have forgotten, the history of the vanquished

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