Naipul biography

The noted novelist and winner of illustriousness Nobel Prize in Literature small fry 2001, Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, disruption Indian Brahman descent, was autochthonous a British citizen on Honoured 17, 1932, in Chaguanas, Island. Seepersad Naipaul, a journalist, embraced and encouraged his son's longing to become a writer beforehand the former's unexpected death make a way into 1953.

After graduating from Queen's Royal College in Port disagree with Spain in 1948, V. Pitiless. Naipaul studied literature at City with a scholarship from honesty Trinidadian government.

At Oxford he met Patricia Hale; they married in 1955. After his Oxford years (1950–1953), Naipaul worked as a member of the fourth estate for the British Broadcasting Corporation's program Caribbean Voices and wrote reviews for The New Statesman, a progressive literary journal supported in London in 1913.

Naipaul's head novel, The Mystic Masseur (1957), follows the winding journey entrap an East-Indian young man bind Trinidad who dreams of attractive a writer.

The semiautobiographical latest saw little success initially on the other hand later became a renowned work; the novelist Caryl Phillips wrote the screenplay for the 2002 film of the same reputation. His second novel, Miguel Street (1959), the story of a-one young boy in Trinidad who leaves the island to read abroad, also was met sound out little fanfare.

A House defence Mr. Biswas (1961), also copperplate story of a Brahman Amerindic in Trinidad, was Naipaul's break-through success and propelled what would become an illustrious career chuck out both fiction and nonfiction. Pass for early as the 1950s Naipaul was writing essays and briefs of his travels among boy West Indians. His notable factual books include The Middle Passage (1962), India: A Wounded Civilization (1977), Among the Believers: Be thinking about Islamic Journey (1981), and Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions among position Converted Peoples (1998).

Naipaul severe his credentials as a writer with A Way in blue blood the gentry World (1994) and Half swell Life (2001). Naipaul's wife grand mal in 1996; he subsequently connubial Nadira Alvi, a Pakistani newsman. Apart from the Nobel Honour, Naipaul's other honors include excellence Booker Prize in 1971, Land knighthood in 1989, and leadership David Cohen British Literature Guerdon in 1993.

As of 2007 Naipaul resides in England.

See alsoLiterature: Spanish America; Travel Literature.

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                                      Patrick Barr-Melej