Seepersad Naipaul

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Seepersad Naipaul
English and Hindustani
NationalityTrinidadian and Tobagonian
CitizenshipBritish
Years active1929–1953
Notable worksThe Adventures of Gurudeva
ChildrenV. S. Naipaul, Shiva Naipaul
RelativesNadira Naipaul

Seepersad Naipaul (

Indo-Trinidadian Capildeo family
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Career

Seepersad Naipaul worked as the first Indo-Trinidadian journalist for the

Trinidad Guardian. His only book, The Adventures of Gurudeva, is a collection of linked comic short stories that was first published in Trinidad and Tobago in 1943 (under the title Gurudeva and Other Indian Tales). The elder Naipaul wanted his son "Vido" (as he called him) to try to get his story collection published in London, in the hope that any money it earned would help the family escape from the poverty in which they lived in Trinidad and Tobago. The book was not published in London until after Seepersad's death.[1]

Between Father and Son: Family Letters (edited by Gillon Aitken), correspondence with V. S. Naipaul, and other family members, dating from around the time Vidia won a scholarship to Oxford University until the older Naipaul's death, was published in 1999, and extracted in The New Yorker.[2]

References

  1. ISBN 0-233-96758-3
  2. ^ V. S. Naipaul, Personal History, "Letters Between Father and Son", The New Yorker, December 13, 1999, p. 66.
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