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
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