India: Essays
About this eBook
These are essays, full of gentleness, humour and feeling, that take us into the mind of a great writer.
‘Peerless ... the human encounters are described minutely, superbly ... there is a candour to his writing, a constant precision at its heart’ - Sunday Times
‘Sceptical, enquiring, sharply observant and unfailingly stylish’ - Guardian
‘The coolest literary eye and most lucid prose we have’ - New York Times Book Review
About the author
V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He came to England on a scholarship in 1950. He spent four years at University College, Oxford, and began to write, in London, in 1954. He pursued no other profession.
His novels include A House for Mr Biswas, The Mimic Men, Guerrillas, A Bend in the River, and The Enigma of Arrival. In 1971 he was awarded the Booker Prize for In a Free State. His works of nonfiction, equally acclaimed, include Among the Believers, Beyond Belief, The Masque of Africa, and a trio of books about India: An Area of Darkness, India: A Wounded Civilization and India: A Million Mutinies Now.
In 1990, V.S. Naipaul received a knighthood for services to literature; in 1993, he was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. He lived with his wife Nadira and cat Augustus in Wiltshire, and died in 2018.
