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VS Naipaul
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, commonly known as V. S. Naipaul, and colloquially Vidia Naipaul, is an English writer born in Trinidad and Tobago who writes in English. He is known for his early comic books set in Trinidad, the dark novels of alienation around the world, and the careful chronicles of life and his journey. He writes in widely admired prose, but his views are sometimes controversial. He has published more than thirty books over fifty years. Naipaul won the Booker Prize in 1971 for his novel In Free State. In 1989, he received the Triple Cross, the highest national honor of Trinidad and Tobago. He received the title of knighthood in Great Britain in 1990 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001. At the end of the 19th century, Naipaul's grandparents emigrated from India to work in the plantations of Trinidad as servants. His groundbreaking novel A House for Mr. Biswas was published in 1961 .
BornVidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, August 17, 1932, Chaguanas, Caroni County, Trinidad and Tobago
DiedAugust 11, 2018, London, England, United Kingdom
OccupationNovelist, travel writer, essayist
CitizenshipBritish
Alma materUniversity College, Oxford
Period1957–2010
GenreNovel, essay
Notable worksA House for Mr Biswas, In a Free State, A Bend in the River, The Enigma of Arrival
Notable awardsBooker Prize, 1971, Nobel Prize in Literature, 2001

About VS Naipaul

Novelist VS Naipaul was born in Chaguanas, Trinidad And Tobago on August 17, 1932. He dies at the age of 85, on August 11, 2018.

Nobel Laureate who has written over 30 works over the period of 50 years, including The Mystic Masseur in 1957 and A Turn in the South in 1989.

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VS Naipaul before becoming famous

VS Naipaul was born in the Zodiac sign Leo (The Lion), and 1932 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Monkey (猴).

When he was 17 years old, he attended Queen's Royal College and obtained a Trinidad Government scholarship to study overseas.

Achievement of VS Naipaul

In 1966, he was awarded a Writer-in-Residence grant at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, where he began writing.

VS Naipaul's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

From 1955 to 1996, he was married to Patricia Ann Hale, and then from 1996 to his death, he was married to Nadira Naipaul.

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In The New York Review of Books, author Novelist Joan Didion remarked of his work.

VS Naipaul Income & Net worth

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Latest information about VS Naipaul updated on March 22 2023.