Seepersad Naipaul was a writer of Indo-Trinidadian heritage. He was the father of V.S. Naipaul and married into the influential Capildeo family.

Naipaul worked as a journalist on the Trinidad Guardian

Trinidad Guardian

The T&T Guardian is the oldest daily newspaper in Trinidad and Tobago. Founded in 1917, the Guardian is published by the Trinidad Publishing Company. The newspaper was published as a broadsheet since inception but changed to tabloid format, known as the "G-sized Guardian", in November 2002...

. His only book, "The Adventures Of Gurudeva" is a collection of linked short stories, which was first published in Trinidad. The elder Naipaul wanted his son "Vido" (as he called him) to try to get it published in London

London

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, in the hope that any money it earned would help the family escape from the poverty

Poverty

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 in which they lived in Trinidad

Trinidad

Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands and numerous landforms which make up the island nation of Trinidad and Tobago. It is the southernmost island in the Caribbean and lies just off the northeastern coast of Venezuela. With an area of it is also the fifth largest in...

. The book was not published in London until after his death (publisher: London : Deutsch, 1976. ISBN 0233967583). For more information, read Letters Between a Father and Son.