V.S. Naipaul

Born in1932, in a small town in
Trinidad into a family of Indian.
His grandfather worked in a sugar cane plantation and his father was a
journalist and writer. At the age of 18 Naipaul traveled to England
where, after studying at University College at Oxford, he was awarded
the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1953.
V. S. Naipaul is generally considered the leading novelist of
English-speaking Caribbean and he is the winner of the Nobel Prize in
literature in 2001.
Naipaul's writings dealt with the cultural confusion of the Third World
and the problem of an outsider.
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