| Name(s) |
ARAVIND ADIGA |
| Date of
Birth |
October 23, 1974
- born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. |
|
Identity |
Indian-Australian
writer and journalist. |
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Other Events &
Developments |
- Aravind Adiga was born in Madras (now Chennai).
- His paternal grandfather was the late K. Suryanarayana
Adiga, former chairman of Karnataka Bank.
- Adiga began his journalistic career as a financial
journalist, interning at the Financial Times.
- His review of previous Booker Prize winner Peter Carey's
book, Oscar and Lucinda, appeared in The Second Circle, an
online literary review.
- He was subsequently hired by TIME, where he remained a
South Asia correspondent for three years before going
freelance.
- During his freelance period, he wrote The White Tiger,
which won the 2008 Man Booker Prize.
- He is the fourth Indian-born author to win the prize,
after Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai.
- V. S. Naipaul, another winner, is of Indian origin, but
was not born in India.
- The novel studies the contrast between India's rise as a
modern global economy and the lead character, Balram, who
comes from crushing rural poverty. He tried his best to
highlight the brutal injustices of Indian society, not by
way of an attack on the country, but about the greater
process of self-examination.
- In April 2009 it was announced that the novel would be
adapted into a feature film.
- Adiga's second book, Between the Assassinations, was
released in India in November 2008 and in the US and UK in
mid-2009.
- The book features 12 interlinked short stories. His
second novel and third published book, Last Man in Tower,
was published in the UK in 2011.
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