V. S. Naipaul

V. S. Naipaul was a Trinidadian-British writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001 and whose fiction — 'A House for Mr Biswas', 'A Bend in the River' — and non-fiction explored the psychological consequences of colonialism with pitiless clarity.

Naipaul's central preoccupation — the colonized subject whose cultural framework has been destroyed without a replacement — maps onto Nolan's theme of the deracinated consciousness, the person who has no stable ground to orient themselves.