VS Naipaul

About:

• Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (a.k.a Vidia Naipaul or V. S. Naipaul) was an author, who wrote more than thirty books (fiction and nonfiction).
  
  
• He was born in 1932, in Trinidad into an Indian Hindu family. Later on he became a British citizen.
  
  
• Notable works:
  • A House for Mr Biswas
    
    
  • In a Free State
    
    
  • A Bend in the River
    
    
  • The Enigma of Arrival
    
    
  • His India trilogy comprising (1) An Area of Darkness, (2) A Wounded Civilisation and (3) A Million Mutinies Now.
    
    
  
  
  
• Awards:
  • Booker Prize (1971) for his book ‘In a free state’.
    
    
  • Nobel Prize for Literature (2001).