Seepersad Naipaul

Career

Seepersad Naipaul worked as a journalist on the Trinidad Guardian. His only book, The Adventures of Gurudeva, is a collection of linked short stories that was first published in Trinidad in 1943 (under the title Gurudeva and Other Indian Tales). The book was not published in London until after Seepersad"s death.

Achievements

• Between Father and Son: Family Letters (edited by Gillon R Aitken), correspondence with V. S. Naipaul, and other family members, dating from around the time Vidia won a scholarship to Oxford University until the older Naipaul"s death, was published in 1999, and extracted in The New Yorker.