| Full Name |
Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul |
| Date of Birth |
17 August 1932 |
| Place of Birth |
Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago |
| Date of Death |
11 August 2018 |
| Place of Death |
London, England |
| Citizenship / Country of Residence |
British |
| Education |
Queen's Royal College, Port of Spain, Trinidad; University College, Oxford, England |
| Profession |
Writer |
| Years of Activity |
1957-2018 |
| Brief Information |
V.S. Naipaul was a Trinidadian-British writer known for his novels and travelogues. His work often explored themes of colonialism, displacement, and the search for identity. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001 for his unsparing integrity in works that compelled readers to see the presence of suppressed histories. |