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Trinidad and Tobago

Author · Trinidad and Tobago

Shiva Naipaul

Died in 1985

Shiva Naipaul was born in 1945 in Port of Spain; he was the younger brother of V. S. Naipaul. A pupil at Queen's Royal College and St Mary's College, he won a scholarship and studied Chinese at University College, Oxford, from 1964 to 1968. A novelist, journalist and author of travel narratives on Africa and the Caribbean, he published three novels and short stories, and received a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship in 1978. He died in 1985 in London.

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