In the horoscope of famous writer V S Naipaul, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2001, His lagnalord Jupiter is placed in the bhagyastana 9th house and is forming a very powerful rajayoga in conjunction with the 9th lord Sun, and 10th lord Mercury. His 2nd lord Saturn is well placed in its own house and his 5th lord of creativity Mars is in conjunction with the 11th lord of gains Venus forming another great rajayoga.
His novels are : The Mystic Masseur, the Suffrage of Elvira, Miguel Street, A House for Mr Biswas, Mr Stone and the Knights Companion, The Mimic Men, A Flag on the Island, In a Free State which won the Booker Prize in 1971, Guerrillas, A Bend in the River, The Enigma of Arrival, A Way in the World, Half a Life, The Nightwatchman’s Occurrence Book: And Other Comic Inventions – Stories collection comprising The Suffrage of Elvira, Mr Stone and the Knights Companion and A Flag on the Island and Magic Seeds,
Non-fiction works:
The Middle Passage: Impressions of Five Societies – British, French and Dutch in the West Indies and South America, An Area of Darkness, The Loss of El Dorado, The Overcrowded Barracoon and Other Articles, India: A Wounded Civilization, A Congo Diary, The Return of Eva Perón and the Killings in Trinidad, Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey, Finding the Centre: Two Narratives, A Turn in the South, India: A Million Mutinies Now, Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions among the Converted Peoples, Between Father and Son: Family Letters, The Writer and the World: Essays, A Writer’s People: Ways of Looking and Feeling and The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief.
