V. S. Naipaul Quotes


Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.


Citations

Theroux, Paul. Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents. Houghton Mifflin, 1998, p. 250.

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V. S. Naipaul
V. S. Naipaul
  • Born: August 17, 1932
  • Died: August 11, 2018
  • Nationality: Trinidadian
  • Profession: Novelist

Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul TC, commonly known as V. S. Naipaul, and familiarly, Vidia Naipaul, was a Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer of works of fiction and nonfiction in English. He is known for his comic early novels set in Trinidad, his bleaker novels of alienation in the wider world, and his vigilant chronicles of life and travels. He wrote in prose that was widely admired, but his views sometimes aroused controversy. He published more than thirty books over fifty years.