Aravinda Adiga has been awarded the Man Booker Prize 2008 for his novel, The White Tiger.
Man Booker Prize is awarded for best fiction in English every year and the prize amount is £50,000. For the year 2008, six names were shortlisted. Two of the six were Indians, viz., Aravinda Adiga (The White Tiger) and Amitav Ghosh (Sea of Poppies). The other writers were: Sebastian BarryThe Secret Scripture), Linda Grant(The Clothes on Their Backs), Philip Hensher(The Northern Clemency) and Steve Toltz(A Fraction of the Whole).
For a brief biography and interview of Aravinda Adiga:
Wikipedia articles on “MAN BOOKER PRIZE” and “ARAVIND ADIGA”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_Booker_Prize
Reviews of the book, “The White Tiger”:
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