VS Naipaul’s legacy celebrated at annual memorial today
August 17, 2026
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Ryan Bachoo
To mark the August 17 birthday of Trinidad and Tobago’s only Nobel Prize winner so far, Friends of Mr Biswas opens up a new perspective on the writer this week, exploring his work under the wide-ranging topic “Mothering”.
Naipaul’s interconnected relationships between his actual mother, Mother Trinidad, Mother England and Mother India will be the complex and fascinating motif of the event.
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