The man
Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (V. S. Naipaul); 17 August 1932-11 August 2018, was one of the prominent expatriate persons living outside the parent country and writer of our time, particularly writers with Indian background.
As a journalist, fiction novelist, writer of travelogue and nonfiction, he has contributed immensely to the commonwealth or the post colonial literature, which has helped him in securing a place in the literary map of the English speaking world. Naipaul is the seventh Indian or person with Indian roots who was awarded Nobel prize; 2001, and second for literature after Rabindranath Tagore.
Themes prevalent in works
Naipaul’s works take the reader on a journey of experience from the local to the global and from a narrow perspective to a broader all-encompassing vision. He has spent a lifetime pondering his place in the world, trying to square his own ancestral culture with....
