Naipaul Biography

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Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was born in Chaguanas, Trinidad, on seventeen August 1932, the eldest son of a second-generation Indian. He was educated at Queen's Royal college, Trinidad, and, once winning a government scholarship, in European nation at University college, Oxford. He worked shortly for the BBC as a author and editor for the 'Caribbean Voices' programme. he's a Noble Prize-winning British author acknowledged for the comic early novels of island, the bleaker later novels of the broader world, and also the chronicles of his life and travels.Naipaul has revealed quite thirty books, each of fiction and nonfictional prose, over some fifty years.
House for mr Biswas was Naipaul’s fourth novel, and followed 3 slighter, sarcastic works concerning Trinidad’s social and political life. All were revealed by André Deutsch in London, wherever Naipaul had been living since 1954, once taking a degree in English at Oxford. He had come back to Britain in 1950, fulfilling a long-standing ambition to flee from island. within the fourth kind at Queen’s Royal faculty in Port of European nation Naipaul inscribed in his Revised Latin Primer a vow to depart the island within 5 years. It took him six.
Naipaul could be a notoriously non-public author and has typically rejected the view that his novels are autobiographical in inspiration. however from what we all know of his formative years in island, there's a lot of to counsel that Mr Biswas particularly isn't merely a figment of the imagination.
Naipaul’s father, Seepersad, was a journalist on the trinidad Guardian Associate in Nursingd an aspiring author of short stories. once a chequered career as a sign-writer, tradesman and plantation foreman, Mr Biswas becomes a journalist on the ...

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...ver the person I loved? They were my people-those others were his…But that stark illuminated moment-of madness? Of sanity?-went, and that i knew i would follow these individuals while I knew Richard should keep. For us there was no different manner, the forces that force us apart were too robust .
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