Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, T.C. (born August 17, 1932, in Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago), better known as V. S. Naipaul, is a Trinidadian-born British writer of Indo-Trinidadian ethnicity and Bhumihar Brahmin heritage from Gorakhpur in Eastern Uttar Pradesh, India. Naipaul lives now in Wiltshire, England.

Naipaul was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001 and knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1990. A scion of the politically powerful Capildeo family of Trinidad, Sir Vidia is the son, older brother, uncle, and cousin of published authors Seepersad Naipaul, Shiva Naipaul, Neil Bissoondath, and Vahni Capildeo, respectively. His current wife is Nadira Naipaul, a former journalist.

Bibliography
Fiction

The Mystic Masseur - (1957)
The Suffrage of Elvira - (1958)
Miguel Street - (1959)
A House for Mr Biswas - (1961)
Mr. Stone and the Knights Companion - (1963)
A Flag on the Island - (1967)
The Mimic Men - (1967)
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)
Magic Seeds - (2004)

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預計星期二要把Miguel Street 讀完^^
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