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Fireflies is a novel by Shiva Naipaul
Shiva Naipaul

Shiva Naipaul , born Shivadhar Srivinasa Naipaul in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, was a Trinidadian and Great Britain novelist and journalist....
 originally published in 1970. It was his first book, a comic novel set in Trinidad
Trinidad

Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands and islands of Trinidad and Tobago which make up the country of Trinidad and Tobago....
. In an essay in An Unfinished Journey
An Unfinished Journey

An Unfinished Journey is a posthumous collection of essays by Shiva Naipaul, published by Hamish and Hamilton in 1986.The Foreword is written by Naipaul's father-in-law, Douglas Stuart, who creates a short biographical sketch of the author, describing Shiva as a writer who gained in discipline but was painfully slow, even at times spend...
, Naipaul described how in 1968 as a final year student at Oxford University studying Chinese, he had been moved to write down a sentence, which proved to be the beginning of his first novel, which he then worked on for the next two years. The novel was hailed on publication, winning the Jock Campbell New Statesman Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
John Llewellyn Rhys Prize

The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize is a United Kingdom based literary prize. It is presented for the best work of literature by an author aged 35 or under, and from Britain or from the British Commonwealth....
 and the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize.

Writer Martin Amis
Martin Amis

Martin Louis Amis is an England novelist, essayist, professor, and short story writer, and the son of the novelist and poet Kingsley Amis. His works include such novels as Money , London Fields and The Information ....
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Fireflies is a novel by Shiva Naipaul
Shiva Naipaul

Shiva Naipaul , born Shivadhar Srivinasa Naipaul in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, was a Trinidadian and Great Britain novelist and journalist....
 originally published in 1970. It was his first book, a comic novel set in Trinidad
Trinidad

Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands and islands of Trinidad and Tobago which make up the country of Trinidad and Tobago....
. In an essay in An Unfinished Journey
An Unfinished Journey

An Unfinished Journey is a posthumous collection of essays by Shiva Naipaul, published by Hamish and Hamilton in 1986.The Foreword is written by Naipaul's father-in-law, Douglas Stuart, who creates a short biographical sketch of the author, describing Shiva as a writer who gained in discipline but was painfully slow, even at times spend...
, Naipaul described how in 1968 as a final year student at Oxford University studying Chinese, he had been moved to write down a sentence, which proved to be the beginning of his first novel, which he then worked on for the next two years. The novel was hailed on publication, winning the Jock Campbell New Statesman Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
John Llewellyn Rhys Prize

The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize is a United Kingdom based literary prize. It is presented for the best work of literature by an author aged 35 or under, and from Britain or from the British Commonwealth....
 and the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize.

Writer Martin Amis
Martin Amis

Martin Louis Amis is an England novelist, essayist, professor, and short story writer, and the son of the novelist and poet Kingsley Amis. His works include such novels as Money , London Fields and The Information ....
 said of Fireflies