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Trinidadian-British writer (1932–2018)

Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul^{[nb 1]}FRASTC (; 17 August 1932 – 11 August 2018) was a Trinidadian-born British writer of works 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.

Vidiadhar Surajpra-sad Naipaul was born in in Chaguanas, Trinidad, close to Port of Spain, in a family descended from immigrants from the north of India.

Vidiadhar Surajpra-sad Naipaul was born in in Chaguanas, Trinidad, close to Port of Spain, in a family descended from immigrants from the north of India.

Vidia regarded the whole doctrine of the equality of human beings in intellect, character and culture as foolishness.

Naipaul had a lifelong feud with Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.

In , when he was nineteen, and already married for six years, Gandhi went to England to study law.

Born in Trinidad in , Naipaul went to England on a scholarship.

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.^[1] He won the Jerusalem Prize in 1983, and in 1990, he was awarded the Trinity Cross, Trinidad and Tobago's highest national honour. He received a knighthood in Britain in 1990, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001.

Life and career

Background and early life