Aravind Adiga Wins Booker Prize
Aravind Adiga has won the 2008 Man Booker Prize for fiction for his first novel, The White Tiger. He becomes the fourth debut novelist to win the Booker Prize.
The thirty-three year old novelist was presented the prize at an awards ceremony at Guildhall, London. Adiga becomes the fourth debut novelist, and the second Indian debut novelist, to win the award in the forty year history of the prize. The three other debut novelists to have won the prize are Keri Hulme for her novel The Bone People in 1985, DBC Pierre in 2003 for his novel Vernon God Little and Arundhati Roy in 1997 for The God of Small Things.The Man Booker Prize website has an interview with Adiga here about what life is like after winning the esteemed book prize. He says he is thrilled to have won but that "life goes on as before."
Aravind Adiga's winning novel The White Tiger is decribed as a "compelling, angry and darkly humorous" novel about a man's journey from Indian village life to entrepreneurial success. It was described by one reviewer as an "unadorned portrait" of India seen "from the bottom of the heap".
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Posted on October 24, 2008
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