 Naipaul won the Nobel Prize in Literature.Also from the West Indies is George Lamming (born 1927), who wrote "In the Castle of My Skin" (1953), while from Pakistan, came Hanif Kureshi (born 1954), a playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker, novelist and short story writer.His book "The Buddha of Suburbia" (1990) won the Whitbread Award for the best first novel, and was also made into a BBC television series.