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Arvind Adiga wins Man Booker

By Anantha at 14 October, 2008, 9:01 pm Print This Post Print This Post Email This Post Email This Post

Chennai born Arvind Adiga has won the 2008 Man Booker prize and £50,000 prize for for his debut novel The White Tiger. Adiga, only the fourth first time novelist to win the prize, beat out established names such as Amitava Kumar and Sebastian Barry to win the prize for his novel that the Guardian describes as “a bracingly modern novel about the dark side of the new India”.

Adiga was born in Chennai in 1974 and was raised partly in Australia. Having studied at Columbia and Oxford universities, he became a journalist, and has written for Time magazine and many British newspapers. He lives in Mumbai.

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Celine October 21, 2008

It’s great that his talent is appreciated. A good thing for India and Indians indeed.

Aravind Adiga, born in Chennai to Kannadiga parents, grew up in Mangalore and studied at Canara High School and then at St. Aloysius, Mangalore.

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