biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1955– )
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Trinidad, West Indies, of Indian descent, the nephew of V S Naipaul. He emigrated to Canada in 1973 to study French at York University, Toronto. His first book, a collection of short stories, Digging Up the Mountains (1985), deals with the themes of immigration and exile. His acclaimed first novel, A Casual Brutality (1988), about the violent decline of a Caribbean island state was short-listed for the Guardian Fiction Prize. The stories in his third book, On the Eve of Uncertain Tomorrows (1990), are set in Canada and Spain. A second novel, The Worlds Within Her (2000), returns to a Caribbean setting. |
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