Miguel Street

Miguel Street  

1st edition cover
Author(s) V. S. Naipaul
Country Trinidad
Publisher André Deutsch
Publication date 1959
Pages 176

Miguel Street is a semi-autobiographical novel by V. S. Naipaul set in wartime Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Naipaul wrote it while employed at the BBC using a BBC typewriter and "rustle-free paper."[1]

Miguel Street won the 1961 Somerset Maugham Award.

References

  1. ^ Gillian Dooley (2006). V.S. Naipaul, man and writer. Univ of South Carolina Press. p. 16. ISBN 1570035873.