Women are “sentimental,” and their “narrow view of the world” makes them inferior writers. So, at least, says V.S. Naipaul, the prolific Nobel and Booker Prize-winning author whose works include “A ...

“IT WAS CALAMITOUS for me. I feel a deep, deep grief.” Sir V.S. Naipaul is talking about his dead cat. We are sitting in the spacious two-story London flat in Kensington where the author and his ...

Nobel Prize winning author, Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul or “V. S.” Naipaul, is one of the world’s literary greats coming out of Trinidad and Tobago. Nobel Prize winning author, Sir Vidiadhar ...

V.S. Naipaul can read the flaws in anybody's character immediately upon seeing his face. A good skill for a novelist. "Or for someone going through life," says the newest Nobel laureate for literature ...

Sir V.S. Naipaul reading in Trinidad – image courtesy caribbeanfreephoto. He is the single most gifted and important writer ever produced by Trinidad and Tobago, and, arguably, the English-speaking ...

Excerpted from "Reading Through the Night" by Jane Tompkins (University of Virginia Press, 2018). Reprinted by permission of University of Virginia Press. I had been reading all my life—as a child on ...

LONDON (AP) -- V.S. Naipaul, the Trinidad-born Nobel laureate whose celebrated writing and brittle, provocative personality drew admiration and revulsion in equal measures, died Saturday at his London ...

Reporting from London — V.S. Naipaul, the Trinidad-born Nobel laureate whose celebrated writing and brittle, provocative personality drew admiration and revulsion in equal measures, died Saturday at ...