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, ...

There was some surprise when Sir Vidia and Lady Naipaul turned up at the BJP office last week and gave what many in the press took to be a pre-election endorsement not just of the party but the entire ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sir V. S. Naipaul was in mourning for the death of his cat. Augustus was old, in feline years, and had been exhibiting symptoms of senility. On the eve of his death he had wandered into a distant ...

A friend from Delhi called. He had spotted me on TV standing behind V S Naipauland whispering in his ear as he was being barracked by the national press after a closed meeting with thecultural wing of ...

When the Swedish Academy announced it was giving the Nobel Prize for Literature to Sir Vidia Naipaul, I happened to be in India. The BBC rang me up and the researcher at the end of my mobile phone ...

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 ...