| |
| | Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, , Legends, Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul profile, V.S. Naipaul has been awarded ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | The British writer, born in Trinidad, V(idiadhar) S(urajprasad) Naipaul was born in 1932 in Chaguanas, close to the Port of Spain on Trinidad, in a family descended from immigrants from the north of India. |
 | | At the age of 18 Naipaul travelled to England where, after studying at University College at Oxford, he was awarded the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1953. |
 | | Biswas, Naipaul extended the geographical and social perspective of his writing to describe with increasing pessimism the deleterious impact of colonialism and emerging nationalism on the third world, in for instance Guerrillas (1975) and A Bend in the River (1979), the latter a portrayal of Africa that has been compared to Conrad's Heart of Darkness. |
| www.4to40.com /legends/index.asp?article=legends_vsnaipaul (560 words) |
|