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Date of Birth
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17-August-1932
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Place of Birth
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Chaguanas
(Trinidad and Tobago, Regional corporations and municipalities of Trinidad and Tobago, Trinidad)
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Nationality
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United Kingdom, Trinidad and Tobago
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Also know as
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Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, V. S. Naipau
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Profession
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Novelist, Writer, Journalist, Essayist, Author
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Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, is a Trinidad-born Nobel Prize-winning British writer known for the comic early novels of Trinidad, the bleaker later novels of the wider world, and the chronicles of his life and travels.
Naipaul has published more than 30 books, both of fiction and nonfiction, over some 50 years.
Naipaul married Patricia Ann Hale in 1955. She served as first reader, editor, and critic of his writings until her death in 1996. To her Naipaul dedicated his A House for Mr. Biswas.
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