Seepersad Naipaul

Seepersad Naipaul (/ˈnaɪpɔːl, naɪˈpɔːl/; 1906–1953) was an Indo-Trinidadian writer. He was the father of V. S. Naipaul, Shiva Naipaul, Kamla Tewari (née Naipaul), and Sati Bissoondath (née Naipaul), and married into the influential Hindu Indo-Trinidadian Capildeo family.

Seepersad Naipaul
Native name
शिव प्रसाद नायपॉल  (Caribbean Hindustani)
Born1906
Trinidad and Tobago
Died1953
Saint James, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
OccupationJournalist and author
LanguageEnglish and Hindustani
CitizenshipBritish
Notable worksThe Adventures of Gurudeva
Years active1929-1953
SpouseDroapatie Naipaul (née Capildeo)
ChildrenV. S. Naipaul, Shiva Naipaul, Kamla Tewari (née Naipaul), Sati Bissoondath (née Naipaul), Savi Naipaul, Mira Naipaul, and Nalini Naipaul
RelativesBalkrishna Naipaul, Nadira Naipaul, Neil Bissoondath, Rudranath Capildeo, Simbhoonath Capildeo, Vahni Capildeo, Surendranath Capildeo, and Capildeo family

Career

Seepersad Naipaul worked as the first Indo-Trinidadian journalist for the Trinidad Guardian. His only book, The Adventures of Gurudeva, is a collection of linked comic short stories that was first published in Trinidad and Tobago in 1943 (under the title Gurudeva and Other Indian Tales). The elder Naipaul wanted his son "Vido" (as he called him) to try to get his story collection published in London, in the hope that any money it earned would help the family escape from the poverty in which they lived in Trinidad and Tobago. The book was not published in London until after Seepersad's death.[1]

Between Father and Son: Family Letters (edited by Gillon Aitken), correspondence with V. S. Naipaul, and other family members, dating from around the time Vidia won a scholarship to Oxford University until the older Naipaul's death, was published in 1999, and extracted in The New Yorker.[2]

See also

References
  1. London: André Deutsch, with a foreword by V. S. Naipaul, 1976. ISBN 0-233-96758-3
  2. V. S. Naipaul, Personal History, "Letters Between Father and Son", The New Yorker, December 13, 1999, p. 66.


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