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 died in 2018.
“V. S. Naipaul is the world’s writer, a master of language and
perception.” —The New York Times Book Review
“As delightful as anything Naipaul has written.” —The New York
Review of Books
“V. S. Naipaul has a substantial claim as a comic writer.... This
humor, conducted throughout with the utmost stylistic quietude, is
completely original.” —Kingsley Amis, The Spectator
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