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A Brief Biography of V. S. Naipaul

David P. Lichtenstein '99, Brown University, Contributing Editor, Caribbean Web

Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naiapaul's prolific writing career spawned out of an inauspiscious birth in Chaguanas, Trinidad on August 17, 1932.

Although his parents descended from Hindu immigrants from Northern India, Naipaul's inability to form spiritual connections with his heritage, be it Trinidadian, Indian, or even British, dominates his thought as it appears in his work.

Bal krishna naipaul biography sample

Like Jamaica Kincaid, Naipaul has turned to his own life for material, writing of his exodus from Trinidad to England (where he took a B.A. at Oxford) in such works as The Enigma of Arrival. Writing has really been his only career, and the large number of successful novels under his name proves his time well-spent.

Critics laud Naipaul for the extraordinary vision that marks his writing.

Perhaps due to his status as rootless wanderer, as a man without a heritage t