V. S. Naipaul

Sir **Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, TC** (17 August 1932 in Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago &ndash; 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).

## References
## 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