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’s Closet opened on St. Clair Street beneath the St. Clair Lofts in 2020. Owner Davia Allen said she started the business to honor her sister, who died unexpectedly in 2013. “I got started in ...

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 ...