Shiva Naipaul

Shiva Naipaul (born Shivadhar Srinivasa Naipaul) was an Indo-Trinidadian and British novelist and journalist, born in 1945 in Port of Spain, Trinidad, and the younger brother of Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul. He studied at Queen's Royal College, St. Mary's College in Trinidad, and University College, Oxford, where he began his writing career; his debut novel Fireflies (1970) won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, followed by The Chip-Chip Gatherers (1973, Whitbread Award) and later nonfiction works like North of South (1978). He died of a heart attack in 1985 at age 40 in London.