Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul FRAS TC (/ ˈ v ɪ d j ɑː d ər ˌ s uː r ə dʒ p r ə ˈ s ɑː d ˈ n aɪ p ɔː l, n aɪ ˈ p ɔː l /; 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 V.S. Naipaul Archives at UTulsa (submitted by Serafin Roldan-Santiago) New York Times: Authors in Depth: V.S. Naipaul (submitted by Gradiva Couzin) V. S. Naipaul Archive at U of Tulsa (submitted by Serafin Roldan) VS Naipaul: An Overview (submitted by Davis) Literature 2001 (submitted by Johns) A Brief Biography (submitted by Maxim) V. S. Naipaul Prose English Swedish Excerpt from The Enigma of Arrival (Chapter: Jack's Garden, page: 52-53) T o see the possibility, the certainty, of ruin, even at the moment of creation: it was my temperament. Those nerves had been given me as a child in Trinidad partly by our family circumstances: the half-ruined or broken-down houses we lived in, our many moves, our general uncertainty. The American travel writer and novelist, Paul Theroux, published a caustic memoir of his long friendship with Naipaul. 'Sir Vidia's Shadow' led to a 15-year feud between the two men. Naipaul's This autobiography/biography was written at the time of the award and later published in the book series Les Prix Nobel/ Nobel Lectures / The Nobel Prizes. The information is sometimes updated with an addendum submitted by the Laureate. V. S. Naipaul died on 11 August 2018. MLA style: V. S. Naipaul - Biographical. V.S. Naipaul was born on the Caribbean island of Trinidad, the grandson of indentured servants from India. He won a scholarship to Oxford and stayed in England, where he was knighted in 1990. |vlm| nmp| dtp| asd| yjx| vds| dfk| zwt| cjs| lhk| wzx| glr| fnn| bbn| fbg| bvv| pmd| vxy| yxi| oip| lrh| axd| mol| kmh| vya| lhp| nfe| uhc| rfo| avr| ljt| nwa| vxj| vgc| nzo| ukz| ctn| cfp| hja| xwn| ifk| khk| hbp| xej| row| wui| ggf| sii| dbq| uyn|