Biography of V S Naipaul
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Introduction
V.S. Naipaul, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 2001 is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in the English-speaking Caribbean. His works generally deal with the cultural confusion of the third world and the setbacks of being a stranger. This attributes his own experience as an Indian in the West Indies, a West Indian in England, and "a nomadic intellectual in a post-colonial world." Much of Naipaul's works have caused controversy because of the politically incorrect views that they convey about the "half-made societies." Naipaul frequently refuses to avoid "unwelcomed topics" featuring his own part as a writer "to look and to look again, to re-look and rethink." (Anonymous)
Biography
V.S. Naipaul (Vidiadhar Suryaprasad Naipaul) was born in 1932 in a small town in Trinidad to an Indian Brahmin family...