Trinidadian fiction-writer and essayist Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad (V.S.) Naipaul died on August 11, 2018, in London, at 85 years of age. Naipaul was born in Chaguanas, Trinidad, in 1932; he attended Queen’s College in Trinidad and went to Oxford University in 1950, settling in England from that point onwards. His extensive literary production attracted many accolades – including the Nobel Prize in 2001 – and much critique.
Some of the many obituaries and retrospectives on Naipaul’s career appear here:
Kenneth Ramchand in the Guardian (U.K.)
Kei Miller in the Jamaica Gleaner
Joel Julian in the Trinidad Guardian
Meena Kandasamy in Time magazine (U.S.)
