The Concept of Nationality in the Works of V. S. Naipaul: A Diasporic Experience : V. S. Naipaul

Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was born in Chaguanas Trinidad on 17th August 1932. His grandfather worked on a sugarcane plantation and his father was a journalist and writer while his uncle Rudranath Capildeo was a noted scientist and politician. V.S. Naipaul studied at Queens Royal College in Port of Spain where he won a scholarship to the University College at Oxford. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1953 and travelled to England after receiving an award. He travelled far and wide in Asia Africa and America. He was employed as a free- lance journalist by the BBC and devoted entirely to writing.He is considered the leading novelist of the English-Speaking Caribbean winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001 Naipaul is a third generation descendant of a family of Brahmin pundits from Uttar Pradesh India. His writings consist mainly of novels and short stories but also include some documentary work.