维迪亚达·苏莱普拉萨德·奈保尔，V.S. Naipaul was born on August 17, 1932 in Chaguanas, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago as Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul. He is a writer, known for The Mystic Masseur (2001), Face to Face (1994) and Le cercle de minuit (1992). He has been married to Nadira Khannum Alvi since 1996. He was previously married to Patricia Ann Hale.