V. S. Naipaul

Who is this?

Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (; 17 August 1932 – 11 August 2018) was a Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer renowned for his work 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's breakthrough novel A House for Mr Biswas was published in 1961. Naipaul won the Booker Prize in 1971 for his novel In a Free State. He won the Jerusalem Prize in 1983, and was awarded the Trinity Cross, Trinidad and Tobago's highest national honour, in 1990. He received a knighthood in 1990, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001.

Career

1. 1932
   Born
2. 1971
   Won Booker Prize
3. 1983
   Won Jerusalem Prize
4. 1993
   Won International Nonino Prize
5. 2001
   Won Nobel Prize in Literature
6. 2018
   Passed away
7. Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
8. Member of Royal Society of Literature
9. Won John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
10. Notable work: A House for Mr Biswas
11. Notable work: In a Free State
12. Notable work: A Bend in the River
13. Notable work: The Enigma of Arrival
14. Notable work: The Mystic Masseur

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Chaguanas
• •Citizenship: Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom
• •Known as: writer, novelist, journalist, essayist
• •Genre: travel book, essay
• •Spouse: Nadira Naipaul