Which among the following are correct?
[A] George lamming – Barbados
[B] Ben Okri – Nigeria
[C] Fred D Aguiar – Australia
[D] Wilson Harris – Guyana
[E] Zulfikar Ghose – India
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

The correct answer is A, B and D only.

Let us analyze each of the given statements step-by-step to understand why they are correct or incorrect:

[A] George Lamming – Barbados (Correct):
George Lamming (1927–2022) was a highly influential novelist, essayist, and poet born in Barbados. He is widely recognized as one of the most important figures in modern Caribbean literature, famous for his debut novel In the Castle of My Skin (1953).

[B] Ben Okri – Nigeria (Correct):
Ben Okri (born 1959) is a celebrated Nigerian novelist and poet. He is best known for his novel The Famished Road (1991), which won the prestigious Booker Prize and is a key work of magical realism in African literature.

[C] Fred D'Aguiar – Australia (Incorrect):
Fred D'Aguiar (born 1960) is a British-Guyanese novelist, poet, and playwright, not Australian. He was born in London to Guyanese parents and raised in Guyana.

[D] Wilson Harris – Guyana (Correct):
Sir Theodore Wilson Harris (1921–2018) was a prominent Guyanese writer, novelist, and essayist. His landmark debut novel, Palace of the Peacock (1960), is a classic of Caribbean literature.

[E] Zulfikar Ghose – India (Incorrect):
Zulfikar Ghose (1935–2022) was born in Sialkot (which became part of Pakistan after the partition of British India in 1947). He is primarily categorized and recognized as a Pakistani-American writer rather than an Indian writer.

Therefore, only the pairings in statements A, B, and D are correct, making A, B and D only the correct option.