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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Adesh Samaroo, Basdeo Panday, Bhadase Maraj, Capildeo family, Denesh Ramdin, Devant Maharaj, Drupatee Ramgoonai, Harold Sonny Ladoo, Heeralal Rampartap, Ishwar Maraj, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Kumari Kanchan Dinkerao Mail, Lakshmi Persaud, Neeshan Prabhoo, Neil Bissoondath, Rajindra Dhanraj, Rakesh Yankaran, Ramesh Maharaj, Ravi Bissambhar, Ria Ramnarine, Rudranath Capildeo, Sahadeo Tiwari, Satnarayan Maharaj, Seepersad Naipaul, Shiva Naipaul, Simbhoonath Capildeo, Sonny Ramadhin, Sundar Popo, Surujpat Mathura, Surujrattan Rambachan, V. S. Naipaul, Vahni Capildeo, Winston Dookeran. Excerpt: Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad "V. S." Naipaul, TC (born 17 August 1932) is a Trinidadian-British writer of Indo-Trinidadian heritage of Bhumihar Brahmin known for his novels focusing on the legacy of the British Empire's colonialism. He has also written works of non-fiction, such as travel writing and essays. In 2001, Naipaul was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He has been awarded numerous other literary prizes, including the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (1958), the Somerset Maugham Award (1960), the Hawthornden Prize (1964), the WH Smith Literary Award (1968), the Booker Prize (1971), the Jerusalem Prize (1983) and the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in British Literature (1993). J. M. Coetzee, writing in The New York Review of Books in 2001, described Naipaul as "a master of modern English prose." In 2008, The Times ranked Naipaul seventh on their list of "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945." Naipaul was born in Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago, to parents of Indian descent. He is the son, older brother, uncle, and cousin of published authors Seepersad Naipaul, Shiva Naipaul, Neil Bissoondath, and Vahni Capildeo, respectively. His current wife is Nadira Naipaul, a former Pakistani journalist. Naipaul was married to Englishwoman Patricia Hale for 41 years, until her death from cancer in 1996. According to an authorised biography by Patrick French, the two shared a close relationship when it came to Naipaul's work-Pat was a sort of unofficial editor for Naipaul-but the marriage was not a happy one in other respects. Naipaul regularly visited prostitutes in London, and later had a long-term abusive affair with another married woman, Margaret Gooding, which his wife was aware of. Prior to Hale's death, Naipaul proposed to Nadira Naipaul, a divorced Pakistani journalist, born Nadira Khannum Alvi. They were married two months after Hale's death, at which point Naipaul also abruptly ended his affair with Gooding. Nadira Naipaul had worked as a journa
