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.
“A Tolstoyan spirit.... The so-called Third World has produced no
more brilliant literary artist.” —John Updike, The New Yorker
“Ambitious and successful.” —The Times (London)
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