Nadira Naipaul

Who is Nadira Naipaul?

Nadira, Lady Naipaul is a Pakistani journalist and the wife of novelist Sir Vidiadhar Naipaul. She was born Nadira Khannum Alvi in Pakistan and was raised in Kenya. She worked as a journalist for Pakistani newspaper, The Nation for ten years before meeting Naipaul. They married in 1996, two months after the death of Naipaul's first wife, Patricia Hale.

Previously married in Pakistan to Argha Hashim. Nadria and Hashim had one daughter, who lived with various relatives after the marriage ended.