Quote of the day
With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Shiva Naipaul

Born: February 25, 1945
Died: August 13, 1985 (aged 40)
Bio: Shiva Naipaul, born Shivadhar Srinivasa Naipaul in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, was a Trinidadian and British novelist and journalist.
Known for:
- North of South (1978)
- Fireflies (1970)
- The Chip-Chip Gatherers (1973)
- Love and Death in a Hot Country (1983)
- A Man of Mystery and Other Stories (1984)