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...Naipaul is no kinder about other writers such as the English novelists Graham Greene and Anthony Powell, the Trinidadian novelist Sam Selvon, or the Bengali pundit and essayist Nirad Chaudhuri, all of whom were his contemporaries. Greene's The Quiet American is dismissed because it presumed a knowledge of Indo-Chinese politics and Naipaul imperiously claims to not be in the habit of reading the newspapers. Anthony Powell was a good friend - in fact, during the 1950s he helped the young and ambitious Naipaul secure work as a book reviewer for the British magazine the New Statesman, and displayed...
...book's name and cover caught my eye simultaneously. V.S. Naipaul's The Enigma of Arrival was illustrated with a similarly titled painting by Giorgio de Chirico, the Greek-Italian pre-Surrealist. I pored over the book, which describes the Trinidadian Nobel laureate's own coming to terms with living in southern England, a few miles from where I had grown up. Enthused and enthralled, I decided I wanted the painting...
After a year-long fundraising campaign that kicked off last fall, the Harvard Caribbean Club collected enough cash to sponsor a six-week summer camp for Trinidadian children infected with...
DIED. Shiva Naipaul, 40, Trinidadian-born, British-educated author and journalist whose much admired work nonetheless had not brought him the renown of his older brother V.S. Naipaul; of a heart attack; in London. His richly detailed, harshly scornful observations of the turmoil and shortcomings of many Third World nations, contained in half a dozen novels and travelogues, including North of South (1978), Journey to Nowhere (1980) and Love and Death in a Hot Country (1983), reflected his own postcolonial rootlessness and search for identity...
...show started three years ago and the main purpose was to show Caribbean culture and show the presence of the Caribbean Club on campus,” Paddington, a native Trinidadian, said. “This show allows us to show our culture through dance, through music, through poetry, through all different aspects of Caribbean culture...