V. S. Naipaul
V. S. Naipaul
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, TC, is a Trinidadian Nobel Prize-winning British writer known for his comic early novels set in Trinidad and Tobago, his bleaker later novels of the wider world, and his autobiographical chronicles of life and travels. He has published more than 30 books, both of fiction and nonfiction, over some 50 years...
NationalityTrinidadian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 August 1932
made trinidad
Nothing was made in Trinidad.
people gold done
The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves.
trying situation universal
One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
simple may trinidad
Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
army winning men
In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.
appreciate gone done
You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
needs
Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.
world bigger grew
I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.
ifs hostility
If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
paris intellectual wish
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
writing littles narrative
If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
fate squares england
In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
trying judgment
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
life-is-short life-is banality
My life is short. I can't listen to banality.