A Writer's People
Ways of Looking and Feeling
In his first book of non-fiction since 2003, V.S. Naipaul gives us an eloquent, candid, wide-ranging narrative that delves into the sometimes inadvertent process of creative and intellectual assimilation.
Born in Trinidad of Indian descent, a resident of England for his entire adult life, and a prodigious traveller, Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul has always faced the challenges of “fitting one civilisation to another.” In A Writer’s People, he discusses the writers to whom he was exposed early on, Derek Walcott, Flaubert and his own father among them; how Anthony Powell and Francis Wyndham influenced his first encounters with literary culture; what we have retained–and forgotten–of the world portrayed in Caesar’s The Gallic War and Virgil’s Aeneid; how the writings of…
V.S. NAIPAUL was born in Trinidad in 1932. He came to England on a scholarship in 1950. He spent four years at University College, Oxford, and began to write, in London, in 1954. He pursued no other profession.
His novels include A House for Mr Biswas, The Mimic Men, Guerrillas, A Bend in the River, and The Enigma of Arrival. In 1971 he was awarded the Booker Prize for In a Free State. His works of nonfiction, equally acclaimed, include Among the Believers, Beyond Belief, The Masque of Africa, and a trio of books about India: An Area of Darkness, India: A Wounded Civilization and India: A Million Mutinies Now.
In 1990, V.S. Naipaul received a knighthood…
A Bend in the River
V. S. Naipaul; Introduction by Patrick Marnham
Literary Occasions
V. S. Naipaul
Magic Seeds
V.S. Naipaul
The Masque of Africa
V. S. Naipaul
A Way in the World
V.S. Naipaul
Between Father and Son
V.S. Naipaul
Beyond Belief
V. S. Naipaul
India: A Million Mutinies Now
V.S. Naipaul
Collected Short Fiction of V. S. Naipaul
V. S. Naipaul
A Writer's People
V.S. Naipaul
The Writer and the World
V.S. Naipaul
India: A Wounded Civilization
V.S. Naipaul
The Loss of El Dorado
V.S. Naipaul