24 JANUARY 1987, page 23

Shiva Naipaul Prize Winner

Report by Charles Moore T HE judges were Alexander Chancellor, former editor of the Spectator, Gillon Aitken, Shiva Naipaul's literary agent, Marti n Amis, the novelist, and......

The Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize

I LEFT home in 1950, to go to Oxford and to become a writer. Writing was a family ambition. It was something both my brother and I inherited from our father; many of our ideas......