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| birth_date = | birth_place = Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Novelist, travel writer, essayist | nationality = Trinidadian, British | period = | genre = Novel, essay | subject = | movement = | notableworks = ''A House for Mr Biswas'' ''In a Free State'' ''A Bend in the River'' ''The Enigma of Arrival'' | awards = | influences = | influenced = | signature = | website = | spouse = Patricia Ann Hale Naipaul (1955–96) Nadira Khannum Alvi Naipaul (1996–present) }} Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, TC ( or ; born 17 August 1932), is a Trinidadian Nobel Prize-winning British writer known for his comic early novels set in Trinidad and Tobago, his bleaker later novels of the wider world, and his autobiographical chronicles of life and travels.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Nobel Prize in Literature 2001 )〕 He has published more than 30 books, both of fiction and nonfiction, over some 50 years. Naipaul was married to Patricia Ann Hale from 1955 until her death in 1996. She served as first reader, editor, and critic of his writings. He dedicated his ''A House for Mr Biswas'' to her. In 1996 Naipaul married Nadira Naipaul, a Pakistani former journalist. Naipaul was knighted in 1989. ==Childhood== V. S. Naipaul, familiarly Vidia Naipaul, was born on 17 August 1932 in Chaguanas in Trinidad. He was the second child of his mother Droapatie (''née'' Capildeo) and father Seepersad Naipaul. He is of Nepalese Brahmin Bahun ancestry and his great-grandfathers migrated to India. In the 1880s, his grandparents emigrated from India to work as indentured servants in Trinidad's sugar plantations. In the largely peasant Indian immigrant community in Trinidad, Naipaul's father became an English-language journalist, and in 1929 began contributing articles to the ''Trinidad Guardian''. In 1932, the year Naipaul was born, his father joined the staff as the Chaguanas correspondent. In "A prologue to an autobiography" (1983), Naipaul describes how his father's reverence for writers and for the writing life spawned his own dreams and aspirations to become a writer. The Naipauls believed themselves to be the descendants of Hindu Brahmins, though they did not observe many of the practices and restrictions common to Brahmins in India. The family gradually stopped speaking Indian languages and spoke English at home. In 1939, when he was seven years old, Naipaul's family moved to Trinidad's capital, Port of Spain, where Naipaul enrolled in the government-run Queen's Royal College, a well-regarded school that was modelled after a British public school. Upon graduation, Naipaul won a Trinidad Government scholarship that allowed him to study at any institution of higher learning in the British Commonwealth; he chose Oxford. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「V. S. Naipaul」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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