V.S. Naipaul
Sir V.S. Naipaul is a Trinidadian-British author of novels, travel literature and essays. He has written comic novels set in Trinidad and Tobago as well as bleaker novels and autobiographical works. Naipaul’s family originated in Nepal, moved to India, then to Trinidad (where he was born). He moved to London in 1954. Naipaul was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001 and knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1989.
