Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, novelist, poet and short-story writer. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1907, announced November 7, 1907. Rudyard Kipling, “in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author”. Rudyard Kipling: born 1865, Bombay, British India (now Mumbai, India). Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).