V.S. Naipaul won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. Salman Rushdie, Vikram Seth, and Arundhati Roy are all acclaimed writers but have not won the Nobel Prize. Arundhati Roy won the Booker Prize in 1997. Naipaul was recognized for his 'perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories.'