Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (born August 17, 1932), better known as V. S. Naipul, is a British novelist of Hindu heritage from Trinidad and Tobago.
In 2001, two of his books, A House for Mr Biswas and A Bend in the River would both be on the list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library. He is married to Lady Nadira
Awards:
Fiction
- The Mystic Masseur - (1957)
- The Suffrage of Elvira - (1958)
- Miguel Street - (1959)
- A House for Mr Biswas - (1961)
- Mr. Stone and the Knight's Companion - (1963)
- A Flag on the Island - (1967)
- The Mimic Men - (1967)
- The Loss of Eldorado - (1969)
- In a Free State - (1971)
- Guerillas - (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)
Non-fiction
- The Middle Passage: Impressions of Five Societies - British, French and Dutch in the West Indies and South America (1962)
- And Area of Darkness (1964)
- The Overcrowded Barracoon and Other Articles (1972)
- India: A Wounded Civilization (1977)
- A Congo Diary (1980)
- The Return of Eva Perón (1980)
- Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey (1981)
- Finding the Centre (1984)
- A Turn in the South (1989)
- India: A Million Mutinies Now (1990)
- Homeless by Choice (1992, with R. Jhabvala and S. 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)
