V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He went to England on a scholarship in 1950. After four years at University College, Oxford, he began to write, and since then has followed no other profession. He has published more than twenty books of fiction and non-fiction, including Half a Life, A House for Mr Biswas, A Bend in the River and most recently The Masque of Africa, and a collection of letters, Between a Father and Son. In 2001 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He came to England
on a scholarship in 1950. He spent four years at University
College, Oxford, and began to write, in London, in 1954. He pursued
no other profession.
His novels include A House for Mr Biswas, The Mimic Men,
Guerrillas, A Bend in the River, and The Enigma of Arrival. In 1971
he was awarded the Booker Prize for In a Free State. His works of
nonfiction, equally acclaimed, include Among the Believers, Beyond
Belief, The Masque of Africa, and a trio of books about India: An
Area of Darkness, India: A Wounded Civilization and India: A
Million Mutinies Now.
In 1990, V. S. Naipaul received a knighthood for services to
literature; in 1993, he was the first recipient of the David Cohen
British Literature Prize. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature
in 2001. He lived with his wife Nadira and cat Augustus in
Wiltshire, and died in 2018.
Rare and precious . . . if any modern writer was going to breathe a
last gasp into the epistolary tradition, it was always likely to be
V. S. Naipaul. * New Statesman *
A very moving book. -- James Wood * London Review of Books *
A fascinating psychological narrative. * The Times *
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