LONDON: Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, the 57 year old Trinidadian novelist of Indian origin, has been conferred honorary knighthood.
Author of such acclaimed novels as The Mystic Masseur
(1957), The Suffrage of Eliva
(1958), A House for Mr. Biswas
(1961), A Bend in the River
(1979) and the more recent The Enigma of Arrival, Naipaul was awarded the much-coveted Booker Prize for his 1971 classic in A Free State.
While early in his career, he extensively drew upon his Caribbean roots, Naipaul gradually broadened his interests to incorporate. Into his fiction larger settings which extended over England, The United States, Africa and India,
Article extracted from this publication >> January 12, 1990
