V. S. Naipaul

Sir **Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, TC** (17 August 1932 in Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago – 11 August 2018 in London) was a British writer. He was born in Trinidad and Tobago. He lived in Wiltshire. He was better known as **V. S. Naipaul**. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was the first person of Indian origin to win a Booker Prize (1971).

## Death

Naipaul died on 11 August 2018 in London at the age of 85. That was less than a week before his 86th birthday.

## Bibliography

** Fiction**
- _The Mystic Masseur (novel)_ - (1957) (film version: The Mystic Masseur (2001))
- _The Suffrage of Elvira_ - (1958)
- _Miguel Street_ - (1959)
- _A House for Mr Biswas_ - (1961)
- _Mr. Stone and the Knights Companion_ - (1963)
- _A Flag on the Island_ - (1967)
- _The Mimic Men_ - (1967)
- _In a Free State_ - (1971)
- _Guerrillas_ - (1975)
- _A Bend in the River_ - (1979)
- _Finding the Centre_ - (1984)
- _The Enigma of Arrival_ - (1987)
- _A Way in the World_ - (1994)
- _Half a Life_ - (2001)
- _Magic Seeds_ - (2004)
- _Man-Man_

**Non-fiction**
- _The Middle Passage: Impressions of Five Societies - British, French and Dutch in the West Indies and South America_ (1962)
- _An Area of Darkness_ (1964)
- _The Loss of El Dorado_ - (1969)
- The Overcrowded Barracoon and Other Articles (1972)
- _India: A Wounded Civilization_ (1977)
- A Congo Diary (1980)
- The Return of Eva Perón and the Killings in Trinidad (1980)
- _Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey_ (1981)
- Finding the Centre (1984)
- Reading & Writing: A Personal Account (2000)
- _A Turn in the South_ (1989)
- _India: A Million Mutinies Now_ (1990)
- Homeless by Choice (1992, with R. Jhabvala and S. Rushdie)
- Bombay (1994, with Raghubir Singh)
- Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions among the Converted Peoples (1998)
- Between Father and Son: Family Letters (1999, edited by Gillon Aitken)
- _The Writer and the World: Essays_ - (2002)
- Literary Occasions: Essays (2003, by Pankaj Mishra)
- _A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling_ (2007)

## Further reading

- Girdharry, Arnold (2004) _The Wounds of Naipaul and the Women in His Indian Trilogy_ (Copley).
- Barnouw, Dagmar (2003) _Naipaul's Strangers_ (Indiana University Press).
- Dissanayake, Wimal (1993) _Self and Colonial Desire: Travel Writings of V.S. Naipaul_ (P. Lang).
- Hamner, Robert (1973). _V.S. Naipaul_ (Twayne).
- Hammer, Robert ed. (1979) _Critical Perspectives on V.S. Naipaul_ (Heinemann).
- Hayward, Helen (2002) _The Enigma of V.S. Naipaul: Sources and Contexts_ (Macmillan).
- Hughes, Peter (1988) _V.S. Naipaul_ (Routledge).
- Jarvis, Kelvin (1989) _V.S. Naipaul: A Selective Bibliography with Annotations, 1957–1987_ (Scarecrow).
- Jussawalla, Feroza, ed. (1997) _Conversations with V.S. Naipaul_ (University Press of Mississippi).
- Kelly, Richard (1989) _V.S. Naipaul_ (Continuum).
- Khan, Akhtar Jamal (1998) _V.S. Naipaul: A Critical Study_ (Creative Books)
- King, Bruce (1993) _V.S. Naipaul_ (Macmillan).
- King, Bruce (2003) _V.S. Naipaul_, 2nd ed (Macmillan)
- Kramer, Jane (13 April 1980) _From the Third World_, an assessment of Naipaul's work in the _New York Times Book Review._
- Levy, Judith (1995) _V.S. Naipaul: Displacement and Autobiography_ (Garland).
- Nightingale, Peggy (1987) _Journey through Darkness: The Writing of V.S. Naipaul_ (University of Queensland Press).
- Said, Edward (1986) _Intellectuals in the Post-Colonial World_ (Salmagundi).
- Theroux, Paul (1998) _Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship across Five Continents_ (Houghton Mifflin).
- Theroux, Paul (1972). _V.S. Naipaul: An Introduction to His Work_ (Deutsch).
- Weiss, Timothy F (1992) _On the Margins: The Art of Exile in V.S. Naipaul_ (University of Massachusetts Press).

## Other websites

- Open Directory Project - V.S. Naipaul directory category
- Editing Vidia, by Diana Athill, a memoir of Naipaul by his editor
- A literary Brown Sahib

## Infobox (writer)

- **name**: V.S.Naipaul
- **image**: VS Naipaul 2016 Dhaka.jpg
- **imagesize**: 200px
- **birth place**: Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago
- **death place**: London, England, United Kingdom, U.K.
- **occupation**: Novelist, essayist