It is universally agreed that Sir Vidia Naipaul was a great writer of the English sentence; a master stylist and story-teller with a cold, clear eye for the ironies, tragedies and sufferings of ...

This notebook belonged to the writer Shiva Naipaul. It has only twenty-eight pages filled with minute, cramped handwriting, while the rest of the pages remain blank. In those few pages ...

In the book, V. S. Naipaul described the disadvantaged neighbourhood of Port of Spain in Trinidad. To appreciate Naipaul's social commentary, it is essential to identify and understand the main ...

Novelist Sir VS Naipaul, who won the Nobel Prize in literature, has died aged 85, his family have said. Sir Vidia, who was born in rural Trinidad in 1932, wrote more than 30 books including A Bend ...