Sir vidia naipaul biography of william hamilton

Naipaul was a prolific Indo-Trinidadian writer who published 30 books in a career spanning 50 years. While he wrote complex political novels, travel books, essays and non-fiction, his comic novels set in Trinidad, like Miguel Street and A House for Mr Biswas , are still probably his most famous and loved. Guerrillas, set in an unnamed Caribbean island which some say was a pastiche of Jamaica and Trinidad , was a bleak story which reimagined the life of Michael X and the murder of Gail Benson.

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The Enigma of Arrival was his most autobiographical book and also much lauded. His authority as a narrator is grounded in the memory of what others have forgotten, the history of the vanquished. Naipaul thought himself something of a provocateur, apparently saying purposely-offensive things to arouse anger. Mostly, Trinidadians find it hard to forgive his contempt for the island of his birth.

Trinidad has hosted a literary festival of international standing, the Bocas Lit Fest, for the last decade and he shunned invitations to attend. Since the MeToo movement, powerful creative men who have abused women, whether verbally or physically, can no longer be glossed over. Fellows are nominated by peers and elected by our Council of writers — our governing Board.

Being elected a Fellow of the RSL is a lifetime honour. This role gives them the opportunity to support other writers, readers and the future of literature. The RSL connects writers in the Fellowship to one another, and to a wider readership. Naipaul Sir Vidia Naipaul , V. Sir V.