Shiva Naipaul

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Shiva Naipaul (1945–1985), born Shivadhar Naipaul in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, was a Trinidadian and British novelist and journalist.

Shiva Naipaul was the younger brother of novelist V. S. Naipaul. He went first to Queen's Royal College and St Mary's College in Trinidad, then emigrated to Britain where he attended University College, Oxford. He was most famous for his essays and novels describing so-called 'foreign parts'.

At the age of 40, Naipaul "was found dead slumped at his desk by his son", according to Paul Theroux. After his death the Spectator established the Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize for "the writer best able to describe a visit to a foreign place or people...of a culture evidently alien to the writer". ^[1]

[edit] Works

Fireflies (1970), a novel which won the Jock Campbell New Statesman Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Winifred Holtby Prize
The Chip-Chip Gatherers (a novel)
North of South (1978), the story of his remarkable journey through Africa,
Black and White (1980), an exploration of the Jonestown massacre, published in the U.S. as "Journey to Nowhere",
Love and Death in a Hot Country (1983)
Beyond the Dragon's Mouth: Stories and Pieces (1984)
An Unfinished Journey (1986).