- Born
- Died
- Birth nameVidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
- Nickname
- Vijay
- Height5′ 6″ (1.68 m)
- V.S. Naipaul was born on August 17, 1932 in Chaguanas, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago. He was a writer, known for The Mystic Masseur (2001), The Levin Interviews (1980) and Bookmark (1983). He was married to Nadira Khannum Alvi and Patricia Ann Hale. He died on August 11, 2018 in London, England, UK.
- SpousesNadira Khannum Alvi(1996 - August 11, 2018) (his death)Patricia Ann Hale(1955 - 1996) (her death)
- Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his novel The Enigma of Arrival.
- Awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Literature.
- Attended University College, Oxford University, England.
- He accepted a British Knighthood in 1990.
- He allegedly declined a C.B.E. (Commander of the order of the British Empire) in 1977.
- The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
- One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas, and you have to work through it all.
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