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V. S. Naipaul
Standard Name: Naipaul, V. S.
Used Form: V. S. Naipul
Birth Name: Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
Connections
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Textual Production | Sybille Bedford | SB
began reviewing for the New York Review of Books by 1963, and covered a wide range of genres: literary history (a book on Oscar Wilde
), fiction (Graham Greene
), travel writing (... |
Textual Production | Sybille Bedford | Reviewing V. S. Naipaul
's The Middle Passage a decade after the appearance of her own travel book, SB
said: If writing is inseparable from the writer's quality of mind, travel writing is inseparable also... |
Reception | Penelope Fitzgerald | Mollie Hardwick
in Books and Bookmen pronounced this to be a delicate water-colour of a novel, small and charming. |
Reception | Penelope Fitzgerald | Biographer Hermione Lee
announcing in early April 2010 that she was working on PF
, with access to her papers, and, best of all, her library of books with their many personal annotations. Lee, Hermione. “From the Margins: Hermione Lee on Penelope Fitzgerald”. The Guardian, pp. Review 1 - 3. 1 |
Publishing | Diana Athill | |
Literary responses | Edna O'Brien | Literary reviews were generally positive. The Times of London praised EOB
's gift of quick, sensitive observation. Book Review Digest. H. W. Wilson. (1960): 1012 |
Literary responses | Diana Athill | Through her great age and greater panache DA
became something of a cult figure. Edward Field
wrote that she functioned for the British public as the Chief Guide to Old Age. Field, Edward. “Edward Field’s Introduction”. Letters to a Friend, p. xi - xx. xx |
Literary responses | Jane Austen | Some Austen news items are regrettable. In an interview with the Royal Geographical Society
in June 2011, V.S. Naipaul
, in asserting his own superiority to women writers (and claiming he could tell male from... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Meiling Jin | In the introduction to the book of poems that was her first publication, MJ
noted that poetry was a form of expression that comes easier to me than most others. This state of affairs was... |
Friends, Associates | Antonia Fraser | Among many other writers, her long-term friends include V. S. Naipaul
, Edna O'Brien
, Alison Lurie
(an American who spends much of her time in London), and Emma Tennant
(who read Mary, Queen of... |
Friends, Associates | Diana Athill | |
Education | Antonia Fraser | She was, she said later, an idle and pleasure-bent student. She made at least two lifelong friends, Marigold Johnson
and V. S. Naipaul
. Wroe, Nicholas. “The history woman”. The Guardian, pp. 16-19. 18 Gussow, Mel. “Antonia Fraser: The Lady Is a Writer”. New York Times. |
Timeline
1957: Colin MacInnes (son of novelist Angela Thirkell)...
Writing climate item
1957
Colin MacInnes
(son of novelist Angela Thirkell
) published the first of his three Londonnovels of the 1950s, City of Spades, a pioneering study of immigrant Black society in Britain.
30 May 1967: Colonel Emeka Ojukwu of Eastern Nigeria made...
National or international item
30 May 1967
Colonel Emeka Ojukwu
of Eastern Nigeria made a unilateral declaration of independence on the part of the Ibo people, which set up the Republic of Biafra.
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