Shiva naipaul biography

Indo-Trinidadian and British novelist and journalist (–)

Shiva Naipaul (; 25 February – 13 August ), born Shivadhar Srinivasa Naipaul in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, was an Indo-Trinidadian and British novelist and journalist.

Life and work

Shiva Naipaul was the younger brother of novelist V.

S. Naipaul.

Shiva Naipaul - Wikipedia

He went first to Queen's Royal College and St Mary's College in Trinidad, then emigrated to Britain in , having won a scholarship to study Chinese at University College, Oxford. At Oxford, he met and later married Jenny Stuart, with whom he had a son, Tarun.^[1][2]

With Jenny's support, Shiva Naipaul wrote his first novel, Fireflies (), which won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize from the Royal Society of Literature for best regional novel.

It was followed by The Chip-Chip Gatherers (). He then decided to concentrate on journalism, and wrote two non-fiction works, North of South () and Black & White (), before return Naipaul, Shiva 1945–1985 - GYDOP