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 examine each of the literary figures and their respective countries of origin or association:

[A] George Lamming – Barbados: This pairing is correct. George Lamming (1927–2022) was a celebrated Caribbean novelist, essayist, and poet born in Barbados. His seminal work, In the Castle of My Skin (1953), is a autobiographical novel set in a Barbadian village.

[B] Ben Okri – Nigeria: This pairing is correct. Ben Okri (born 1959) is a world-renowned Nigerian novelist and poet. His landmark novel, The Famished Road (1991), won the Booker Prize and is heavily influenced by Yoruba mythology and Nigerian culture.

[C] Fred D'Aguiar – Australia: This pairing is incorrect. Fred D'Aguiar (born 1960) is a British-Guyanese novelist, poet, and playwright. He was born in London to Guyanese parents and raised in Guyana, with no primary association with Australia.

[D] Wilson Harris – Guyana: This pairing is correct. Sir Theodore Wilson Harris (1921–2018) was an influential Guyanese novelist, poet, and essayist. His debut novel, Palace of the Peacock (1960), is a classic of postcolonial Caribbean literature set in the interior of Guyana.

[E] Zulfikar Ghose – India: This pairing is incorrect. Zulfikar Ghose (1935–2022) was a novelist, poet, and essayist. Although born in Sialkot before the partition of British India, he is historically recognized and classified as a Pakistani-American writer, having moved to Pakistan and later writing extensively in the UK and USA.

Based on this analysis, only statements A, B, and D are correct.