Naipaul, Vidiadhar Surajprasad (V. S.)
About V. S. Naipaul
Biography (Encyclopædia Britannica)
Reviews
Rahim, Sameer. "The Masque of Africa." The Telegraph, 27 Aug. 2010
Interviews
Fallon, Amy. "V. S. Naipaul Finds No Woman Writer His Literary Match." The Guardian, 2 Jun. 2011
Dhondy, Farrukh. "An Interview with V. S. Naipaul." Literary Review, Aug. 2001
Robinson, Andrew. "Andrew Robinson Talks to V. S. Naipaul" Independent, 15 Aug. 1992
Criticism
Ghosh, William. “Caribbean Travel and the 'Realistic Shock': Lamming, Naipaul, Condé.” Research in African Literatures, vol. 50, no. 2, 2019
Murdoch, H. Adlai. "Créolité, Creolization, and Contemporary Caribbean Culture." Small Axe, no. 52, 2017
Domínguez, César, and Theo D'haen. Cosmopolitanism and the Postnational: Literature and the New Europe, 2015
James, Erin (ed.). "The Storyworld Accord: Econarratology and Postcolonial Narratives." Frontiers of Narrative, 2015
Kluwick, Ursula, and Virginia Richter. The Beach in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures: Reading Littoral Space, Kluwick and Richter (eds.), 2015
Warren, Michelle R. "'The Last Syllable of Modernity'." Postmedieval, vol. 6, no. 1, 2015
Döring, Tobias. "Caribbean Beachcombers." The Beach in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures: Reading Littoral Space, Kluwick and Richter (eds.), 2015
Rahim, Jennifer, and Lalla, Barbara. Created in the West Indies Caribbean Perspectives on V.S. Naipaul, 2011
Göbel, Walter. "Homes Lost and Found. Three Expatriate Indian Novelists." Constructions of Home: Interdisciplinary Studies in Architecture, Law, and Literature, Stierstorfer (ed.), 2010
Dabydeen, Cyril. "Negotiating V. S. Naipaul." Transplanted Imaginaries: Literatures of New Climates, Sunitha (ed.), 2008
Dhondy, Farrukh. "V. S. Naipaul: The Man and His Mission." Journal of Caribbean Literatures, vol. 5, no. 2. 2008
Cobham, Rhonda. "Consuming the Self: V. S. Naipaul, CLR James, and A Way in the World." Anthurium, vol. 5, no. 2, 2007
Hariharan, Meenakshi. "Aesthetic Sensibility in Expatriate Writing with Reference to Sasthi Brataand V. S. Naipaul." Contemporary Indian Writing in English, Chandra (ed.), 2005
Dabydeen, Cyril. "Shaping the Environment." Caribbean Literature and the Environment: Between Nature and Culture, DeLoughrey et al. (ed.), 2005
Barnouw, Dagmar. Naipaul's Strangers, 2003
Davis, Rocio G. "Negotiating Place/Re-Creating Home: Short-Story Cycles by Naipaul, Mistry and Vassanji." Telling Stories: Postcolonial Short Fiction in English, Bardolph (ed.), 2001
Watling, Gabrielle. "Embarrassing Origins: Colonial Mimeticism and the Metropolis in V. S. Naipaul's The Mimic Men and Sam Selvon's Moses Ascending." LiNQ, vol. 20, no. 2, 1993
Mair, Christian. "Contrasting Attitudes towards the Use of Creole in Fiction: A Comparison of Two Early Novels by V. S. Naipaul and Sam Selvon." Crisis and Creativity in the New Literatures in English, Davis and Maes-Jelinek (eds.), 1990
Cudjoe, Selwyn Reginald. V. S. Naipaul: A Materialist Reading, 1988
Figueroa, John. “Introduction – V. S. Naipaul: A Panel Discussion.” Revista/Review Interamericana, vol. 6, 1976-1977
Works
Novels
Magic Seeds (2004)
Half a Life (2001)
A Way in the World (1994)
Guerillas (1975)
The Mimic Men (1967)
Mr Stone and the Knights Companion (1963)
A House for Mr Biswas (1961)
The Suffrage of Elvira (1958)
The Mystic Masseur (1957)
Short Story Collections
A Flag on the Island (1967)
Miguel Street (1959)
Essays/Articles/Non-Fiction/Short Stories
The Masque of Africa (2010)
A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling (2007)
Literary Occasions (2004)
The Writer and the World (2002)
Reading and Writing (2000)
Letters Between a Father and Son (1999)
Beyond Belief (1998)
India (1990)
A Turn in the South (1989)
The Enigma of Arrival (1987)
Finding the Center (1984)
Among the Believers (1981)
The Return of Eva Peron; and The Killings in Trinidad (1980)
A Congo Diary (1980)
A Bend in the River (1979)
India (1977)
The Overcrowded Barracoon and Other Articles (1972)
In a Free State (1971)
The Loss of El Dorado (1969)
An Area of Darkness (1964)
The Middle Passage (1962)
Audio and Audiovisual Material
Farrukh Dhondy in Conversation with V. S. Naipaul at the Jaipur Literature Festival. YouTube, 28 Jan. 2015
V. S. Naipaul on His Book The Masque of Africa. charlierose.com, 23 Nov. 2010
V. S. Naipaul Interview. The Nobel Prize, 12 Dec. 2001
V. S. Naipaul's Speech at the Nobel Banquet. The Nobel Prize, 10 Dec. 2001