V. S. Naipaul

Sir V. S. Naipaul FRAS TC
Naipaul in 2016
Born	Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (1932-08-17)17 August 1932 Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago, British West Indies
Died	11 August 2018(2018-08-11) (aged 85) London, England
Occupation	Novelist travel writer essayist
Alma mater	University College, Oxford
Period	1957–2010
Notable works	A House for Mr Biswas (1961) In a Free State (1971) A Bend in the River (1979) The Enigma of Arrival (1987)
Notable awards	Booker Prize (1971) Jerusalem Prize (1983) Trinity Cross (1990) Knight Bachelor (1990) Nobel Prize in Literature (2001)
Spouses	Patricia Ann Hale ​ ​ (m. 1955; died 1996)​ Nadira Khannum Alvi ​ (m. 1996)​
Parents	Seepersad Naipaul (father)
Relatives	Shiva Naipaul (brother) Capildeo family

Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul^{[nb 1]} FRAS TC (/ˈvɪdjɑːdər ˌsuːrədʒprəˈsɑːd ˈnaɪpɔːl, naɪˈpɔːl/; 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. 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.

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