The first Indian to win the Booker Prize:

The correct answer is: D) V.S. Naipaul

V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He is a British-Trinidadian novelist, essayist, travel writer, and short-story writer. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001.

In 1971, Naipaul won the Booker Prize for his novel “In a Free State”. He was the first Indian to win the prize.

The other options are incorrect because:

• Salman Rushdie was born in Mumbai, India in 1947. He is a British novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and short-story writer. He is best known for his novels “Midnight’s Children” (1981), which won the Booker Prize, and “The Satanic Verses” (1988), which was the subject of a fatwa by Ayatollah Khomeini.
• Arundhati Roy was born in Shillong, India in 1967. She is an Indian novelist, essayist, and political activist. She is best known for her novel “The God of Small Things” (1997), which won the Booker Prize.
• Kiran Desai was born in London, England in 1971. She is an Indian novelist. She is the daughter of Indian novelist Anita Desai. She is best known for her novel “The Inheritance of Loss” (2006), which won the Man Booker Prize.