Sir V. S. Naipaul was in mourning for the death of his cat. Augustus was old, in feline years, and had been exhibiting symptoms of senility. On the eve of his death he had wandered into a distant ...

“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 ...

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 ...

The muzak was irritating Sir Vidia. He sat in a hotel coffee shop in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the last stop of his American book tour. We asked a server if the soft rock could be turned down. She ...

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 ...

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 ...

V.S. Naipaul, the Trinidad-born Nobel laureate whose precise and lyrical writing in such novels as "A Bend in the River" and "A House for Mr. Biswas" and brittle, misanthropic personality made him one ...

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 ...