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Biography of V. S. Naipaul
Name: V. S. Naipaul
Birth Date: August 17, 1932
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: Trinidad
Nationality: Bolivian
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer
V. S. Naipaul
V. S. Naipaul (born 1932) was one of the foremost spokespersons in English prose of the post-colonial Third World.Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was born August 17, 1932, in Trinidad, where his grandfather, an indentured worker, had come from India. An agnostic, Naipaul very early experienced a profound alienation, both from the close-knit family life of his Brahmin ancestors and from the social and political life of his native Trinidad: "It was a place where the stories were never stories of success but of failure: brilliant men, scholarship winners, who had died young, gone mad, or taken to drink." A scholarship winner himself out of the Queens Royal College, he used the award to escape to England in 1950, where he attended University College in Oxford. England, more than Trinidad, became his home beginning in the 1950s.The first fruit of Naipaul's escape from the colony was a series of gently satiric short novels set …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…of people whose lives have been altered by their encounters with Trinidad. Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples (1998) looks at Islamic countries that Naipaul has visited which are non-Arabic: Indonesisa, Iran, Pakistan, and Malaysia. Naipaul's memoir Reading and Writing: A Personal Account (2000) discusses the author's personal development as a writer. In 2001 Naipaul won the Nobel Prize in literature. Associated Works A Bend in the River Further Reading The first section of Finding the Center (1984) is an autobiographical essay; A Flag on the Island (1967) is a collection of short stories; The Overcrowded Barracoon (1972), is a selection of essays; William Walsh's V. S. Naipaul (1973) is a brief but comprehensive introduction to the writer's life and work; Robert K. Morris's Paradoxes of Order (1975) focuses critically on Naipaul's fiction. A good general analysis of Naipaul's work is to be found in Anthony Boxill's V. S. Naipaul Fiction: In Quest of the Enemy (1983).
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