what are described as inaccuracies, and the novelist Martin Amis wrote that "Shiva Naipaul was one of those people who caused your heart to lift when he entered the room ... in losing him, we have lost thirty years of untranscribed, unvarnished genius". An Arena documentary on his brother V. S. Naipaul reproduced footage of Shiva from an earlier documentary from the early 1980s, in which Shiva returned to Trinidad to see his mother. Shiva Naipaul's literary archive is held at the British Library. The collection (The Shiva Naipaul Archive) "consists of autograph and typescript drafts of Shiva Naipaul's fiction novels, non-fiction and travel writing. It also includes research and drafts relating to his articles, short stories and prose. There is a run of autograph notebooks, largely with notes and research gathered on his travels in India, Trinidad and Tobago, Surinam, Guyana, America, South Africa, Africa, and Australia. There is correspondence dating form his university days, with his family, his wife and a run of business correspondence." Works Novels Fireflies (1970) The Chip-Chip Gatherers (1973) A Hot Country (1983), published in the U.S. as Love and Death in a Hot Country Nonfiction North of South (1978) Black & White (1980), published in the U.S. as Journey to Nowhere An Unfinished Journey (1986). Collections Beyond the Dragon's Mouth: Stories and Pieces (1984) A Man of Mystery and Other Stories (1995), a selection of stories taken from Beyond the Dragon's Mouth. See also Capildeo family References External links Bibliography at fanstasticfiction.co.uk 1945 births 1985 deaths Alumni of Queen's Royal College, Trinidad Alumni of University College, Oxford British male journalists British people of Indo-Trinidadian descent Trinidad and Tobago people of Indian descent John Llewellyn Rhys Prize winners Male novelists Shiva Trinidad and Tobago Hindus Trinidad and Tobago male writers Trinidad and Tobago novelists 20th-century British male writers 20th-century novelists