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WORKS

  • ''Fireflies'' ( 1970 ), a novel which won the Jock Campbell New Statesman Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Winifred Holtby Prize

  • ''The Chip-Chip Gatherers'' (a novel)

  • ''North of South'' ( 1978 ), the story of his remarkable journey through Africa,

  • ''Black and White'' ( 1980 )

  • ''A Hot Country'' ( 1983 )

  • ''Beyond the Dragon's Mouth: Stories and Pieces'' ( 1984 ).


Aged only 40, "he was found dead slumped at his desk by his son" according Paul theroux., after which the '' Spectator '' established the Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize for 'the writer best able to describe a visit to a foreign place or people...of a culture evidently alien to the writer'.