Nadira Naipaul

Nadira, Lady Naipaul (born 1953 in Mombasa, Kenya) is a Pakistani journalist and the wife of novelist Sir V.S. Naipaul.
Nadira was born Nadira Khannum Alvi 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.
She was previously married at the age of 16, in Pakistan to an engineer Agha Hashim, who was 26 year her senior. Nadira and Hashim had two daughters, Gul Zahra and Sumar Zahra, who lived with various relatives after the marriage ended. Later married Iqbal Shah and had a daughter Maleeha, V.S. Naipaul later adopted her.