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- Born: 1974
- Studied at Columbia UniversityReuters: Aravind Adiga wins UK's Booker Prize (October 15, 2008)
- The White Tiger is Adiga's debut novelReuters: Aravind Adiga wins UK's Booker Prize (October 15, 2008)
- Received $87,000 in prize moneyReuters: Aravind Adiga wins UK's Booker Prize (October 15, 2008)
- Lives in MumbaiReuters: Aravind Adiga wins UK's Booker Prize (October 15, 2008)
- Adiga is the fourth author to win the Man Booker Prize for a debut novelOfficial Man Booker Prize Site: The White Tiger Wins
- The Man Booker Prize is awarded annually for the best English-language novel of the yearOfficial Site: The Man Booker Prize
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Aravind Adiga is an Indian writer and journalist who won the 2008 Man Booker Prize for his novel The White Tiger. During his career as a journalist, Adiga contributed to The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine and other publications.Aravind Adiga: Official Site
Adiga said in an interview that the protagonist of The White Tiger is very different from the author, and that the character's main goal is to achieve freedom from social and political constraints.Aravind Adiga: Official Site
"The White Tiger"
The novel recounts the life of one Indian man through the prisms of modern capitalism, social mobility and geopolitical developments in today's India. The plot hinges on a murder and was written in the epistolary genre. Some critics have regarded the novel as "extraordinary and brilliant" and "fiercely anti-capitalist."Times Online: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (April 6, 2008) Guardian: How did The White Tiger capture the Booker? (October 15, 2008)
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