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V. S. Naipaul
Trinidadian-British writer (1932–2018)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 17 August 1932, August 1932
- Died
- 11 August 2018
- Place of birth
- Chaguanas
- Place of death
- London
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- V.
- Father
- Seepersad Naipaul
- Spouse
- Nadira Naipaul
- Sibling
- Shiva Naipaul
- Genre
- travel book, essay
- Field of work
- literature
- Occupation
- writer, novelist, journalist, essayist, short story writer, travel writer
- Citizenship
- Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Literature, John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, Booker Prize, Jerusalem Prize, International Nonino Prize, Knight Bachelor, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Somerset Maugham Award, Hawthornden Prize
- birth name
- Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
- described by source
- Great Encyclopedia of Cyril and Methodius, A Companion to West Indian Literature
- educated at
- University College, Oxford, Queen's Royal College
- employer
- Wesleyan University
- end of work period
- 11 August 2018
- family
- Capildeo family
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- name in native language
- Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
- noble title
- Sir
- nominated for
- Booker Prize, Booker Prize
- notable work
- A House for Mr Biswas, In a Free State, A Bend in the River, The Enigma of Arrival, The Mystic Masseur
- pseudonym
- V. S. Naipaul
- start of work period
- 1957
- topic's main category
- Category:V. S. Naipaul
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