V S Naipaul

Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad "V. S." Naipaul, TC (born 17 August 1932) is a Nobel prize-winning Trinidadian-British writer who is known for his novels focusing on the legacy of the British Empire's colonialism. He has also written works of non-fiction, such as travel writing and essays.

Naipaul has been called "a master of modern English prose" in The New York Review of Books and has been awarded numerous literary prizes including the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (1958), the Somerset Maugham Award (1960), the Hawthornden Prize (1964), the W. H. Smith Literary Award (1968), the Booker Prize (1971), the Jerusalem Prize (1983) and the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in British Literature (1993).

In 2001, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. In 2008, The Times ranked Naipaul seventh on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".

His Works

Fiction

• The Mystic Masseur – (1957) (film version: The Mystic Masseur (2001))
  
• The Suffrage of Elvira – (1958)
  
• Miguel Street – (1959)
  
• A House for Mr Biswas – (1961)
  
• Mr. Stone and the Knights Companion – (1963)
  
• The Mimic Men – (1967)
  
• A Flag on the Island – (1967)
  
• In a Free State – (1971): Booker prize
  
• Guerrillas – (1975)
  
• A Bend in the River – (1979)
  
• Finding the Centre – (1984)
  
• The Enigma of Arrival – (1987)
  
• A Way in the World – (1994)
  
• Half a Life – (2001)
  
• Magic Seeds – (2004)
  

Non-fiction

• The Middle Passage: Impressions of Five Societies – British, French and Dutch in the West
• Indies and South America (1962)
  
• An Area of Darkness (1964)
  
• The Loss of El Dorado – (1969)
  
• The Overcrowded Barracoon and Other Articles (1972)
  
• India: A Wounded Civilization (1977)
  
• A Congo Diary (1980)
  
• The Return of Eva Perón and the Killings in Trinidad (1980)
  
• Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey (1981)
  
• A Turn in the South (1989)
  
• India: A Million Mutinies Now (1990)
  
• Homeless by Choice (1992, with R. Jhabvala and Salman Rushdie)
  
• Bombay (1994, with Raghubir Singh)
  
• Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions among the Converted Peoples (1998)
  
• Between Father and Son: Family Letters (1999, edited by Gillon Aitken)
  
• Reading & Writing: A Personal Account (2000)
  
• The Writer and the World: Essays – (2002)
  
• Literary Occasions: Essays (2003, by Pankaj Mishra)
  
• A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling (2007)
  
• The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief (2010)