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V S Naipaul
The Nobel Prize-winning author talks about his decision to leave Trinidad to pursue a career in writing, the influence of his journalist father, composing his first published work on borrowed paper at the 麻豆社 and why he doesn鈥檛 mind his irascible public persona. (From 2001)
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