Author

V.S. Naipaul

V.S. Naipaul was a Trinidadian-British author born in 1932 in Trinidad and Tobago. He gained credibility on themes of postcolonial identity and displacement through his own experiences as a descendant of Indian immigrants in the Caribbean. Naipaul won the Booker Prize for "In a Free State" in 1971. Other notable works include "A House for Mr Biswas" and "A Bend in the River." He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001 for his incisive narratives.