Rudyard Kipling (Bombay, India, 1865-London, 1936) was the first English writer to win a Nobel Prize for Literature. His literary fame began with six stories about the life of the English in India, published between 1888 and 1889, in which he emphasizes a quick and concise style with a direct language, a feature that characterizes all his work. He is the author of such well-known books as The Voice that Goes Out (1891), Ballads of the Barracks (1892), Captains Fearless (1897) and The Jungle Book (1894), of which several film adaptations have been made.