# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shiva-naipaul
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:46:24.220Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shiva-naipaul"
name: "Shiva Naipaul"
slug: "shiva-naipaul"
description: "Shiva Naipaul, born Shivadhar Srinivasa Naipaul in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, was an Indo-Trinidadian and British novelist and journalist."
tagline: "Trinidad and Tobago writer (1945–1985)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1945-02-25"
deathDate: "1985-08-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.35
  momentum:             6.41711229946524
  historical:           9.433372
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "शिव नैपाल"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%A7_%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84"
    title: "شيفا نيبول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%A7_%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84"
    title: "شيفا نيبول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_Naipaul"
    title: "Shiva Naipaul"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_Naipaul"
    title: "Shiva Naipaul"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_Naipaul"
    title: "Shiva Naipaul"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B5_%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%88%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2"
    title: "शिव नैपाल"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_Naipaul"
    title: "Shiva Naipaul"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_Naipaul"
    title: "Shiva Naipaul"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_Naipaul"
    title: "Shiva Naipaul"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%2C_%D0%A8%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B0"
    title: "Найпол, Шива"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3351168"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump