Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by V. S. Naipaul (Trinidadian-British Writer)

V. S. Naipaul (1932–2018,) fully Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, informally Vidia Naipaul, was a Trinidadian writer of Indian parentage. One of the foremost voices of the post-colonial Third World, he was well known for his ironic and satirical novels set in developing countries. He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Naipaul was born in Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago. His family of Hindu Indians had immigrated to Trinidad as indentured servants. He was educated at Queen’s Royal College, Port of Spain, and then left the Caribbean for England in 1950 to study at Oxford. After editing BBC’s Caribbean Voices radio program, he dabbled in journalism before publishing his first novel, The Mystic Masseur (1957; film, 2001.) Miguel Street (1959) collected sketches depicting lower-class life in Trinidad through the eyes of a growing boy.

Naipaul made his name with A House for Mr. Biswas (1961,) a passionate satire spanning three Trinidadian generations but focusing on its eponymous six-fingered sign writer. From that time on, the Caribbean featured less prominently in Naipaul’s work, which grew steadily darker and more complex. In a Free State (1971) won the Booker Prize.

In addition to novels, Naipaul wrote several acerbic “travel books,” including An Area of Darkness: An Experience of India (1964,) Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey (1981,) and Beyond Belief—Islamic Excursions (1998.) Finding the Centre (1984) is autobiographical. Later novels include The Enigma of Arrival (1987,) A Way in the World (1994,) Half a Life (2001,) and its sequel Magic Seeds (2004.)

Shashi Kamra wrote the chronicle The Novels of V S Naipaul (1990.)

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The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
V. S. Naipaul

I’m the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
V. S. Naipaul
Topics: Writing, Authors & Writing, Writers

The biography of a writer – or even the autobiography – will always have this incompleteness.
V. S. Naipaul
Topics: Autobiography

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