V.S. Naipaul On graduation Naipaul started his career as a freelance writer. Naipaul then worked as a journalist. His first novel, Fireflies, appeared in 1970. http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/vnaipaul.htm
Extractions: A B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback Sir V(idiadhar) S(urajprasad) Naipaul (1932-) Generally considered the leading novelist of the English-speaking Caribbean, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature 2001. Naipaul's writings dealt with the cultural confusion of the Third World and the problem of an outsider, a feature of his own experience as an Indian in the West Indies, a West Indian in England, and a nomadic intellectual in a postcolonial world. Naipaul has also arisen much controversy because of his politically incorrect views of the "half-made societies." He has constantly refused to avoid unwelcome topics, characterizing his role as a writer "to look and to look again, to re-look and rethink." "The facts about Columbus have always been known. In his own writings and in all his actions his egoism is like an exposed deformity; he condemns himself. But the heroic gloss, which is not even his own, has come down through the centuries." (from 'Columbus and Crusoe', in
