V.

S Naipaul
V. S. Naipaul, and informally, Vidia Naipaul, was an Indo-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 won the Booker Prize in 1971 for his novel In a
Free State. In 1989, he was awarded the Trinity Cross, Trinidad and Tobago's highest
national honour. He received a knighthood in Britain in 1990, and in 2001, the Nobel
Prize in Literature
In the late 19th century, Naipaul's grandparents had emigrated
from India to work in Trinidad's plantations as indentured servants. His breakthrough
novel A House for Mr Biswas was published in 1961. On the fiftieth anniversary of its
publication, he dedicated it to Patricia Anne Hale, to whom he was married from
1955 until her death in 1996, and who had served as first reader, editor, and critic of
his writings.

Born: August 17, 1932,

Died: August 11, 2018

Done by-Adajah Julien