Brother of the Nobel Prize V.S. Naipaul, Shiva (1945-1985) was born in a poor family of Trinidad, originally from India. Like his brother, he obtained a scholarship to study in England and began his career as a writer there. His first novels received a shower of praise and awards. Subsequently, it seemed to leave fiction aside to devote to reporting and travel literature. He died at forty years of a heart attack while working. After his death, Martin Amis said that "losing him has meant losing thirty years of pure genius, not transcribed."