I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.

Kelly Richard (1989) V. Naipaul insists that his writing transcends any particular ideological outlook remarking that "to have a political view is to be prejudiced. His authority as a narrator is grounded in the memory of what others have forgotten the history of the vanquiV. S. Naipauld.

Coetzee writing in The New York Review of Books in 2001 described Naipaul as "a master of modern English prose". " Naipaul TC (born 17 August 1932) is a Trinidadian-British writer of Indo-Trinidadian heritage of Bhumihar Brahmin known for his novels focusing on the legacy of the British Empire's colonialism. S.