“Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.”

Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer

Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was a Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer, active across the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. He wrote fiction and nonfiction in English, and was known for his wide-ranging career and his 90 quotes on this site. His early novels, set in Trinidad, are often comic in tone, while later novels are more severe and concerned with alienation in the wider world. He also wrote careful accounts of places and travel. His prose was widely admired, although some of his views drew controversy. Over more than fifty years, he published more than thirty books.