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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wasn't it Fitzgerald who said that in the long dark night of the soul, it's always three inthe morning? Sir Vidia seems to have agreed in his first and last poem, Two Thirty A M, written as"an ...