What is V. S. Naipaul?
{{redlinks|date=April 2020}} {{Infobox Writer | name = V.S.Naipaul | image = VS Naipaul 2016 Dhaka.jpg | imagesize = 200px | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1932|8|17|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Chaguanas]], [[Trinidad and Tobago]] | death_date = {{death date and age|2018|8|11|1932|8|17|df=yes}} | death_place = [[London]], [[England]], [[United Kingdom|U.K.]] | occupation = [[Novelist]], [[essayist]] | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = | debut_works = | influences = | influenced = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }} [[Knight Bachelor|Sir]] '''Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, [[Trinity Cross|TC]]''' (17 August 1932 in [[Chaguanas]], [[Trinidad and Tobago]] &ndash; 11 August 2018 in [[London]]) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] writer. He was born in Trinidad and Tobago. He lived in [[Wiltshire]]. He was better known as '''V. S. Naipaul'''. He was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]]. He was the first person of Indian origin to win a [[Booker Prize]] (1971). ==Death== Naipaul died on 11 August 2018 in [[London]] at the age of 85. That was less than a week before his 86th birthday.<ref name=nytobit>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/11/obituaries/vs-naipaul-dead-author-nobel-prize.html |title=V.S. Naipaul, Delver of Colonialism Through Unsparing Books, Dies at 85 |work=[[The New York Times]] |author=Rachel Donadio |date=11 August 2018 |accessdate=11 August 2018 |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20180812024848/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/11/obituaries/vs-naipaul-dead-author-nobel-prize.html |archivedate=12 August 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=guardianobit>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/aug/11/vs-naipaul-nobel-prize-winning-british-author-dies-aged-85 |title=VS Naipaul, Nobel prize-winning British author, dies aged 85 |work=[[The Guardian]] |author=Richard Lea |date=11 August 2018 |accessdate=11 August 2018}}</ref> == Bibliography == ''' Ficti