He is regarded as one of the most sublime novelists of the age and has won both the Booker and the Nobel Prize for Literature. But in private, Sir Vidia Naipaul, 75, better known as VS Naipaul, ...
He saw the world for what it is. Literary London is a rather small village in which everyone knows the color of the curtains and the politics of everyone else. In the early 1960s a newcomer from ...
Vidia Naipaul with his first wife, Pat, outside their flat in Streatham, south London, in 1961, the year he published his early masterpiece A House for Mr Biswas Born into poverty in colonial Trinidad ...
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Some years ago, at a literary festival where many great, good and gifted (well, some of them) were gathered I am sitting at a table on a hill terrace — the location of the fest — with Sir Vidia ...
Today’s investors demand personalization and digitalization in every important facet of their lives. For too long, static and impersonal wealth management reports have stood as barriers to deeper ...
Ihad planned to become a doctor – I imagined working in a hospital in a tropical country like Dr Schweitzer. I graduated in 1963, but being unable to afford medical school I joined the Peace Corps and ...
Forty-one years after they first met, 11 years after a deep friendship spawned by that meeting ended in acrimony, nine years after he wrote about the relationship and its death in his memoir, Sir ...