V.S. Naipaul is a famous Trinidadian author of the Indian origin and the Nobel Prize winner. He was born as Vidiadgar Surajprasad Naipul in Trinidad and Tobago. He is a British citizen. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in the year 2001 for one of his novels called half A Life. Naipaul has published over 30 novels in his writing career based on the autobiographical chronicles about life and traveling, most of which are set in the developing countries.
Books in order of publication:
India Trilogy Books
| An Area of Darkness | (1964) | |
| A Wounded Civilization | (1976) | |
| A Million Mutinies Now | (1990) |
Willie Chandran Books
| Half a Life | (2001) | |
| Magic Seeds | (2004) |
Novels
| The Mystic Masseur | (1957) | |
| The Suffrage of Elvira | (1958) | |
| Miguel Street | (1959) | |
| A House for Mr Biswas | (1961) | |
| Mr Stone And The Knights Companion | (1963) | |
| The Mimic Men | (1967) | |
| In a Free State | (1971) | |
| Guerrillas | (1975) | |
| A Bend in the River | (1979) | |
| Finding the Center | (1984) | |
| Overcrowded Barracoon | (1984) | |
| The Enigma of Arrival | (1987) | |
| A Way in the World | (1994) |
Collections
| A Flag on the Island | (1967) | |
| Collected Short Fiction | (1971) | |
| The Nightwatchman’s Occurrence Book | (2002) | |
| Vintage Naipaul | (2004) |
Non-Fiction Books
| The Middle Passage | (1962) | |
| Reading and Writing | (1968) | |
| The Loss of El Dorado | (1969) | |
| The Perfect Tenants and the Mourners | (1977) | |
| The Return of Eva Peron | (1980) | |
| A Congo Diary | (1980) | |
| Among the Believers | (1981) | |
| A Turn In The South | (1989) | |
| Beyond Belief | (1998) | |
| Between Father and Son | (1999) | |
| The Writer and the World | (2002) | |
| Literary Occasions | (2003) | |
| A Writer’s People | (2007) | |
| The Masque of Africa | (2010) | |
| India Essays | (2018) |
Anthologies
| Points of View | (1956) | |
| Island Voices: Stories from the West Indies | (1965) | |
| From The Green Antilles Writings Of The Caribbean | (1967) | |
| The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories | (1999) | |
| A Tangled Web | (2005) | |
| Trinidad Noir: The Classics | (2017) |
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