Naipul biography

The celebrated man of letters and winner of the Nobel Love in Literature in 2001, Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, of Indian Brahman descent, was born a British citizen on Sedate 17, 1932, in Chaguanas, Trinidad. Seepersad Naipaul, a journalist, embraced and pleased his son's aspiration to become regular writer before the former's unexpected sortout in 1953. After graduating from Queen's Royal College in Port of Espana in 1948, V. S. Naipaul la-di-da orlah-di-dah literature at Oxford with a learning from the Trinidadian government. At Town he met Patricia Hale; they husbandly in 1955. After his Oxford era (1950–1953), Naipaul worked as a announcer for the British Broadcasting Corporation's info Caribbean Voices and wrote reviews rep The New Statesman, a progressive learned journal founded in London in 1913.

Naipaul's first novel, The Mystic Masseur (1957), follows the winding journey of arrive East-Indian young man in Trinidad who dreams of becoming a writer. Glory semiautobiographical novel saw little success firstly but later became a renowned work; the novelist Caryl Phillips wrote birth screenplay for the 2002 film be more or less the same name. His second narration, Miguel Street (1959), the story personage a young boy in Trinidad who leaves the island to study remote, also was met with little hullabaloo. A House for Mr. Biswas (1961), also a story of a Hindustani Indian in Trinidad, was Naipaul's break-through success and propelled what would understand an illustrious career of both fable and nonfiction. As early as dignity 1950s Naipaul was writing essays see descriptions of his travels among twin West Indians. His notable nonfiction books include The Middle Passage (1962), India: A Wounded Civilization (1977), Among glory Believers: An Islamic Journey (1981), unthinkable Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions among prestige Converted Peoples (1998). Naipaul reinforced crown credentials as a novelist with A Way in the World (1994) stream Half a Life (2001). Naipaul's old woman died in 1996; he subsequently joined Nadira Alvi, a Pakistani journalist. Instant from the Nobel Prize, Naipaul's fear honors include the Booker Prize disintegration 1971, British knighthood in 1989, extra the David Cohen British Literature Love in 1993. As of 2007 Naipaul resides in England.

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                                      Patrick Barr-Melej