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Vidya Naipol, born in rural poverty in colonial Trinidad in 1932, would rise from this unpromising setting to become one of the great writers of the 20th century.

This achievement does not mean that all his writing was good or that his

behaviour was exemplary, but rather that his cumulative accomplishment outstripped his contemporaries

and altered the way in which writers and readers perceived the world. Using simple sentences,

he would look at complex modern subjects, extremism, global

migration, political and religious identity, ethnic difference, the implosion of Africa,

the resurgence of Asia, and the remaking of the old European dispensation in the aftermath

of empire. His achievement was an act of will, in which every situation and relationship would be

subordinated to his ambition.

His public position as a novelist and chronicler was inflexible at a time of intellectual

relativism.

He stood for high civilization, individual rights and the rule of law.

Hello and welcome to Empire with me Anita Arnden. And me, William Duripold. And what you just

heard William reading is an extract from the opening of Patrick French's biography of Nypal. The

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