Remembering Sir V.S. Naipaul

V.S. Naipaul, the Trinidad- born writer, was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Literature. He wrote both fiction and nonfiction, often turning an eye toward colonialism and the Third World. Some criticized him for not adhering to a romantic view of the Third World, as many of his colleagues did. Among his best-known works are A House for Mr. Biswas (1961) based in part on his father, A Bend in the River (1979), and The Enigma of Arrival (1987). His literary feuds and tempestuous relationships with women were notorious in the literary community.