Shiva Naipaul Age, Death, Wife, Children, Family, Biography
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Age: 40 Years
Death Date: 13/08/1985
Death Cause: Heart Attack
Some Lesser Known Facts About Shiva Naipaul
- Shiva Naipaul belonged to a Capildeo family.
- In 1964, he went to study in Britain with the help of a prestigious Island scholarship that he won.
- In 1967, after completing his education in Britain, he settled there with his wife Jenny Stuart.
- His popular fiction novels include Fireflies (1970), The Chip-Chip Gatherers (1973).
- After releasing his two fictional novels he decided to take a break from fiction and concentrate on Journalism, he wrote two non-fiction books that included North of South: An African Journey (1978) which was based on his visit to Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia and Black and White (1980).
- After 10 years, he wrote another fiction novel A Hot country (1983).
- In 1984, he released Beyond the Dragon’s Mouth, a series of fictional and non-fiction stories and articles that examines African, Indian and Caribbean societies.
- After his sudden death a posthumous collection of essays was published by Shiva was published known as An Unfinished Journey (1986).
- Shiva’s literary achieves are held in the British library. His collection in the library includes his autograph and typescript drafts of his fictional, non-fiction and travel writing.
- In 2008, Christopher Hitchens appreciated Shiva Naipaul’s first novel Fireflies (1970) as “one of the best tragicomic novels of our time” in his article in The Atlantic.
- In an article for the New Yorker published in 2019, V.S Naipaul wrote about Shiva’s death,
- It did not surprise me. He was a drinking man, and I had seen death on his face the previous year, at the funeral of my younger sister”.