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From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia. Naipauland informally, Vidia Naipaulwas a Trinidad and Tobago -born British writer of works of fiction and nonfiction in English. He is known for his comic early novels set in Trinidad, his bleaker novels of alienation in the wider world, and his vigilant chronicles of life and travels.

He wrote in prose that was widely admired, but his views sometimes aroused controversy.

He Identity In Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipauls Mimic Men more than thirty books over fifty years. Inhe was awarded the Trinity Cross, Trinidad and Tobago 's highest national honour. He received a knighthood in Britain inand the Nobel Prize in Literature in In the late 19th century, Naipaul's grandparents had emigrated from India to work in Trinidad's plantations as indentured servants. His breakthrough novel A House for Mr Biswas was published see more On the fiftieth anniversary of its publication, he dedicated it to Patricia Anne Hale, to whom he was married from until her death inand who had served as first reader, editor, and critic of his writings.

Naipaul was born on 17 August in ChaguanasTrinidad and Tobago. His younger brother was the writer Shiva Naipaul. At University College, OxfordNaipaul's early attempts at writing, he felt, were contrived. Lonely and unsure of his ability and calling, he became depressed. With Hale's support, he began to recover and gradually to write. She became a partner in planning his career. Her family was hostile to the relationship; his was unenthusiastic.

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In JuneNaipaul and Hale graduated from Oxford. Naipaul graduated with a second-class degree. Peter Bayleyhis Oxford tutorwould later comment that Naipaul "had not quite forgiven us for giving him a second-class degree". InNaipaul's father died.

Naipaul moved to London in In Januaryhe and Pat were married. Sitting in the BBC freelancers' room in the old Link Hotelhe wrote "Bogart", the first story of Miguel Streetwhich was inspired by a neighbour he knew as a child in Port of Spain. Naipaul wrote Miguel Street in five weeks. The New York Times said about the book: "The sketches are written lightly, so that tragedy is understated and comedy is overstated, yet the ring of truth always prevails.

InNaipaul returned to Trinidad and Tobago for a two-month stay with his family. Travelling by ship there, he sent humorous sketches of the ship's West Indian passengers to Pat. Somerset Maugham himself approving the first-ever selection of a non-European for the prize. For his next novel, A House for Mr BiswasNaipaul took for inspiration childhood memories of his father Naupauls he wrote that the novel "destroyed memory" in some respects.

The book took three years to write. It felt like a career; and there was a short period, towards the end of the writing, when I do believe I knew all or much of the book by heart. The labour ended; the book began to recede. And I found that I was unwilling to re-enter the world I had created, unwilling to expose myself again to the emotions that lay below the comedy.

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I became nervous of the book. I haven't read it since I passed the proofs in May Brutality is not the only difficulty. History is built around achievement and creation; and nothing was created in the West Indies.]