# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/v-s-naipaul
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:17:08.394Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/v-s-naipaul"
name: "V. S. Naipaul"
slug: "v-s-naipaul"
description: "Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was a Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer renowned for his works of fiction and nonfiction in English. He is known for his comic early novels set in Trinidad, his bleaker novels of alienation in the wider world, and his vigilant chronicles of life and travels. He wrote in prose that was widely admired, but his views sometimes aroused controversy. He published more than thirty books over fifty years."
tagline: "Trinidadian-British writer (1932–2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/VS_Naipaul_2016_Dhaka.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1932-08-17"
deathDate: "2018-08-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.111571433082771
  historical:           24.677412
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump