Nadira Naipaul

Nadira, Lady Naipaul (born 1953 in Mombasa, Kenya[1]) is a Pakistani journalist and the wife of novelist Sir Vidiadhar Naipaul.

Nadira was born Nadira Khannum Alvi and was raised in Kenya. She worked as a journalist for Pakistani newspaper, The Nation for ten years before meeting Naipaul. They married in 1996, two months after the death of Naipaul's first wife, Patricia Hale.[2]

She was previously married in Pakistan to Argha Hashim. Nadira and Hashim had one daughter, who lived with various relatives after the marriage ended. V.S. Naipaul later adopted her daughter.[3]

References

  1. ↑ French, Patrick. The world is as it is. Knopf, New York 2008, p. 472 (online).
  2. ↑ Miller, Marjorie (12 October 2001). "The World; V.S. Naipaul Receives Nobel for Literature". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 21 September 2011.
  3. ↑ Chotiner, Isaac (7 December 2012), V.S. Naipaul on the Arab Spring, Authors He Loathes, and the Books He Will Never Write, New Republic

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