Background
NAIPAUL, Vidiadhar was born on August 17, 1932.
NAIPAUL, Vidiadhar was born on August 17, 1932.
Queen's Royal College, Port-of-Spain and University College Oxford.
Freelance broadcaster with the BBC, producing programmes for the Caribbean area. Fiction reviewer on New Statesman 61. Grant from Trinidad Government, to travel in Caribbean 1961.
In India 63, in Uganda 1965-1966, in United States 1969, in Argentina 1972, in Venezuela 1977, in United States of America 1978-1979, in Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia and Indonesia 1979-1980, in United States of America 1987-1988. Honorary Doctor of Letters (St. Andrews) 1979, (Columbia) 1981, (Cambridge) 1983, (London) 1988. John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial.
The Mystic Masseur 1957, The Suffrage of Elvira 1958, Miguel Street 1959, A House for Mr. Biswas 1961, The Middle Passage 1962, Mr. Stone and the Knights Companion 1963, An Area of Darkness 1964, The Mimic Men 1967, A Flag on the Island 1967 (collection of short stories), The Loss of El Dorado 1969, In a Free State 1971, The Overcrowded Barracoon 1972, Guerrillas 1975, India: A Wounded Civilization 1977, A Bend in the River 1979, The Return of Eva Peron 1980, Among the Believers 1981, Finding the Centre 1984, The Enigma of Arrival 1987, A Turn In The South 19$), India: A Million Mutinies now 1990.