V. S. Naipaul (born 1932) was one of the foremost spokespersons in English prose of the post-colonial Third World. Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was born August 17, 1932, in Trinidad, where his grandfather, an indentured worker, had come from India. An a...

"Half the writer's work . . . is the discovery of his subject." With this statement V. S. Naipaul declares his purpose as a writer and the object of his craft—the imaginative shaping of experience into an affecting and intelligent narrative that re...

V. S. Naipaul is both one of the most highly regarded and one of the most controversial of contemporary writers. Widely admired in North America and Europe for the lucidity of his prose style, his incisive travel journalism, and his ironic accounts of co...

The army has captured a senior commander of Colombia's second largest rebel group, the government said Tuesday, calling it a major blow to the guerrillas that could push them closer to a peace deal.Carlos Marin Guarin, who uses the nom de guerre "Pablito," was detained...

Iranian artillery shelled near Iraqi Kurd villages Thursday as Iranian troops clashed with Kurdish guerrillas making an incursion across the border, officials in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan said.It was the third day of shelling in two areas along the border in northern Iraq, said Jabbar Yawer,...

Translated excerpts provided by Colombia's government from the captured diary of a Dutch woman who became a rebel fighter with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia:_Aug. 23, 2006: I called home — without permission ... It was marvelous to hear their voices. Mom and dad...

The army stumbled on the handwritten diary during a raid on a guerrilla camp. It lay near the embers of a communal kitchen where fleeing rebels left their breakfast untouched."I'm tired, tired of the FARC, tired of the people, tired of communal living. Tired of...