V. S. Naipaul
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 lived with his wife Nadira and cat Augustus in Wiltshire, and died in 2018.
Books by V. S. Naipaul
A House for Mr Biswas
In a Free State
A Bend in the River
The Masque of Africa
India: Essays
India
The Indian Trilogy
The Mimic Men
The Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book
In a Free State
Guerrillas
Miguel Street
The Mystic Masseur
A Turn in the South
The Middle Passage
Letters Between a Father and Son
Literary Occasions
A Writer's People
The Writer and the World
The Enigma of Arrival
A Way in the World
Magic Seeds
Half a Life
Beyond Belief
India: A Wounded Civilization
Among the Believers
An Area of Darkness
The Loss of El Dorado
India: A Million Mutinies Now
Series by V. S. Naipaul