The Engima of Arrival by V. S. Naipaul(Fiction; Knopf, 1987) The Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932, went to Oxford on a scholarship in 1950, and began writing four years later. He has followed no other profession. Want to read more? Please login. New to Narrative? sign up. It's easy and free. Share: