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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 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 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.
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
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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.
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Winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Literature, Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was a Trinidadian novelist and författare av essäer who wrote about life and kultur 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, 1932, the eldest son of Seepersad Naipaul, a locally renowned reporter. 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 galleri and BBC while ansträngande to man a uppstart as a writer; he married Patricia Ann Hale in 1955.
Over the several years during which he published his first novels (The Mystic Masseur, 1957; The Suffrage of Elvira, 1958; Miguel Street, 1959), which offered comic and formally innovative portrayals of West Indian life, Naipaul reviewed books at The New Statesman. In