V. S. Naipaul Death
Vidiadhar passed away on August 11, 2018 at the age of 85 in London, United Kingdom.
When did V. S. Naipaul die?
August 11, 2018How old was V. S. Naipaul when died?
85Where did V. S. Naipaul die? What was the location of death?
London, United Kingdom
V. S. Naipaul Birthday and Date of Death
V. S. Naipaul was born on August 17, 1932 and died on August 11, 2018. Vidiadhar was 85 years old at the time of death.
Birthday: August 17, 1932
Date of Death: August 11, 2018
Age at Death: 85
V. S. Naipaul - Biography
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad "Vidia" Naipaul was a Caribbean writer of Indo-Nepalese descent and Nobel Laureate who was born in Trinidad with British citizenship. He is 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. He published more than thirty books, both of fiction and nonfiction, over some fifty years.
During his first trip to Argentina, in 1972, Naipul met and entered into an affair with Margaret Gooding, a married Anglo-Argentine mother of three. He revealed his affair to his wife one year after it began, telling her that he had never been sexually satisfied in their relationship. He moved between both women for the next 24 years.
In 1995, as he was traveling through Indonesia with Gooding, his wife Patricia was hospitalized with cancer. She died the following year. Within two months of her death, Naipaul ended his affair with Gooding and married Nadira Alvi, a divorced Pakistani journalist more than 20 years his junior. He had met her at the home of the American consul-general in Lahore. In 2003 he adopted Nadira’s daughter, Maleeha, who was then 25.
