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Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad "V. S." Naipaul, TC (born 17 August 1932) is a Nobel prize-winning Trinidadian-British writer who is known for his novels focusing on the legacy of the British Empire's colonialism. He has also written works of non-fiction, such as travel writing and essays.
ولد نيبول عام 1932 وهو من ترنداد براطني الجنسية ومعروف برواياته عن الاستعمار البريطاني
Naipaul has been called "a master of modern English prose" in The New York Review of Books and has been awarded numerous literary prizes including the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (1958), the Somerset Maugham Award (1960), the Hawthornden Prize (1964), the W. H. Smith Literary Award (1968), the Booker Prize (1971), the Jerusalem Prize (1983) and the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in British Literature (1993).
In 2001, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. In 2008, The Times ranked Naipaul seventh on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
Personal life
Naipaul was born in Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago, to parents of Indian descent.
ولد في ترنداد وتباجو من لابوين من اصل هندي
He is the son, older brother, uncle, and cousin of published authors Seepersad Naipaul, Shiva Naipaul, Neil Bissoondath, and Vahni Capildeo, respectively. His current wife is Nadira Naipaul, a former Pakistani journalist.
Naipaul was married to Englishwoman Patricia Hale for 41 years, until her death due to cancer in 1996.
كان متزوج من امرأة انجليزية لمدة 46 ولحين وفاتها عام 1996 بسبب السرطان
According to an authorised biography by Patrick French, the two shared a close relationship when it came to Naipaul's work—Pat was a sort of unofficial editor for Naipaul—but the marriage was not a happy one in other respects.
الزواج لم يكن سعيدا
Naipaul regularly visited prostitutes in London, and later had a long-term abusive affair with another married woman, Margaret Gooding, which his wife was aware of.
كان على اتصال مع بائعات الهوى وكان له علاقة مع امرأة اخرى لمدة طويلة انت تعرف بها زوجته
Prior to Hale's death, Naipaul proposed to Nadira Naipaul, a divorced Pakistani journalist, born Nadira Khannum Alvi. They were married two months after Hale's death, at which point Naipaul also abruptly ended his affair with Gooding.
تزوج بعد موت زوجته من صحفية باكستانية وقطع علاقته مع المرأه الاخرى
Nadira Naipaul had worked as a journalist for the Pakistani newspaper, The Nation, for ten years before meeting Naipaul. She was divorced twice before her marriage to Naipaul and has two children from a previous marriage, Maliha Naipaul and Nadir.
She is the sister of Maj Gen (Retd) Amir Faisal Alvi, a former chief of the Special Service Group – Pakistan Army, who was later assassinated during the War in North-West Pakistan.
Naipaul insists that his writing transcends any particular ideological outlook, remarking that "to have a political view is to be prejudiced. I don't have a political view." His supporters often perceive him as offering a mordant critique of many left-liberal pieties while his detractors, such as critic Edward Said and poet Derek Walcott accuse him of being a neo-colonial apologist. He has also excoriated Tony Blair as a "pirate" at the head of "a socialist revolution", a man who was "destroying the idea of civilisation in this country" and had created "a plebeian culture".
In his book dealing with the influence of Islam on non-Arab Muslims, Beyond Belief: Islamic excursions among the converted peoples, Naipaul states the following about Islam:
His fiction and especially his travel writing have been criticised for their allegedly unsympathetic portrayal of the Third World. Literary critic Edward Said, for example, argues that Naipaul "allowed himself quite consciously to be turned into a witness for the Western prosecution", promoting what Said classifies as "colonial mythologies about wogs and darkies". Said believes that Naipaul's worldview may be most salient in the author's book-length essay The Middle Passage, which Naipaul composed after returning to the Caribbean after ten years of exile in England, and the work An Area of Darkness.
نفي الى انجلترا لمدة عشر سنوات قبل ان يعود الى الكاريبي
Naipaul has mentioned some negative aspects of Islam in his works, such as nihilism among fundamentalists. He has been quoted describing the bringing down of the Babri Mosque as a "creative passion," and the invasion of Babur in the 16th century as a "mortal wound He views Vijayanagar, which fell in 1565, as the 'last bastion of native Hindu civilisation'He bitingly condemned Pakistan in Among the Believers.
عنده عداء مطبق ضد الاسلام الذي يعتبره عنيف واستعماري
He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1990. In 1993 Naipaul was awarded the British David Cohen Prize for Literature.
In 1998 a controversial memoir by Naipaul's sometime protégé Paul Theroux was published. The book provides a personal, though occasionally caustic portrait of Naipaul. The memoir, entitled Sir Vidia's Shadow, was precipitated by a falling-out between the two men a few years earlier] Theroux supposedly blamed Naipaul's second wife, Nadira Naipaul, for driving the two apart.[
In early 2007, V. S. Naipaul made a long-awaited return to his homeland of Trinidad. He urged citizens to shrug off the notions of "Indian" and "African" and to concentrate on being "Trinidadian". In 2008, writer Patrick French released the first authorised biography of Naipaul, which was serialised in The Daily Telegraph.
V. S. Naipaul: A Chronology

Compiled by Serafin Roldan-Santiago Santa Fe Community College, Gainesville, FL, USA

1932
Naipaul is born in Chaguanas, Trinidad, August 17.
1948
"Liza of Lambeth." Queen's Royal College Chronicle (Port of Spain) 23 (1948): 42-43.
1950
Leaves Trinidad to study English at University College, Oxford.
1953
Naipaul's father, Seepersad Naipaul, dies. Awarded Oxford degree in English.
مات ابوه عام 1953 وعمره 21 سنه

Generally considered the leading novelist of the English-speaking Caribbean, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature 2001. Naipaul's writings dealt with the cultural confusion of the Third World and the problem of an outsider, a feature of his own experience as an Indian in the West Indies, a West Indian in England, and a nomadic intellectual in a postcolonial world.
تعالج كتاباته الارتباك الثقافي الناتج عن كونه هندي يعيش في الكاريبي ومن ثم في بريطانيا
Naipaul has also arisen much controversy because of his politically incorrect views of the "half-made societies." He has constantly refused to avoid unwelcome topics, characterizing his role as a writer "to look and to look again, to re-look and rethink."
"The facts about Columbus have always been known. In his own writings and in all his actions his egoism is like an exposed deformity; he condemns himself. But the heroic gloss, which is not even his own, has come down through the centuries." (in 'Columbus and Crusoe', The Overcrowded Barracoon, 1972)
Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was born in a small town in Trinidad into a family of Indian Brahmin origin. His father, Seepersad Naipaul, was a correspondent for the Trinidad Guardian.
كان والده يعمل كمراسل لجريدة الجاردين في ترنداد
He also published short stories. When Naipaul was six the family moved to Port of Spain, the capital.
عندما كان نيبول في السادسه انتقلت العائلة الى العاصمة ميناء اسبانيا
Seepersad Naipaul died of a heart attack in 1953 without witnessing the success of his son as a writer.
مات والده في العام 1953 ( عندما كان نيبول 21 ) دون ان يشهد نجاح ابنه ككاتب
He had encouraged Naipaul in his writing aspirations, telling him in a letter: "Don't be scared of being an artist. D. H. Lawrence was an artist through and through; and, for the time being at any rate, you should think as Lawrence. Remember what he used to say, 'Art for my sake.'" At the age of 18 he had written his first novel which was rejected by the publisher.
Naipaul was educated at Queen's Royal College, Port of Spain, and in 1950 he won a scholarship to Oxford. In 1949, after having some pictures of himself taken for his application to the university, Naipaul wrote to his elder sister: "I never knew my face was fat. The picture said so. I looked at the Asiatic on the paper and thought that an Indian from India could look no more Indian than I did... I had hoped to send up a striking intellectual pose to the University people, but look what they have got."
كتب في رسالة الى اخته الكبيرة بعد ان حصل على بعثة للدراسة في جامعة اكسفورد يقول لها لم اكن اعرف ان وجهي سمين الى هذا الحد انني ابدو هندي اكثر من الهنود كنت اتمنى ان ارسل للجامعة صور جميلة لكن انظري على ماذا حصلوا
After a nervous breakdown he tried to commit suicide, but luckily the gas meter ran out.
اصيب بحالة انهيار عصبي وحاول الانتحار بعدها لكن لحسن حظه فرغت جرة الغاز قبل موته
On graduation Naipaul started his career as a freelance writer. During this period Naipaul felt himself rootless, but found his voice as a writer in the mid-1950s, when he started to examine his own Trinidadian background.
عمل مراسل صحفي واثناء هذه الفترة ( اواسط الخمسينيات ) كان يشعر بأنه بدون اصل
From 1954 to 1956, Naipaul was a broadcaster for the BBC's Caribbean Voices, and between the years 1957 and 1961 he was a regular fiction reviewer for the New Statesman.