Spotted newly-minted Man Booker Prize winner Aravind Adiga outside the rediff.com office in Mahim, central Mumbai
Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger and Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies were among the six books shortlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. They will meet to decide on the winning novel on October 14, and the author will be awarded the 50,000 (about Rs 40 lakh) prize money at an awards ceremony later that evening at Guildhall, London.
Aravind Adiga has won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2008 for his debut novel The White Tiger.
Aravind Adiga, winner of this year's Man Booker Prize for his debut novel The White Tiger says his novel highlights the brutal injustices of changing India, which is on the verge of inheriting the world from the West. Adiga's novel is creating ripples in India for its defiantly unglamorous portrait of the country's economic miracle. Refuting that the novel was an attack on the growth story of the country, Adiga said writers like him should highlight the brutal aspects.
Enjoying the spotlight after winning the 2008 Man Booker prize for his debut novel, young Indian novelist Arvind Adiga says his second novel is "almost done" but declined to give details about the upcoming book. The 33-year-old journalist based in Mumbai also rejected suggestions that his award-winning book The White Tiger was overly critical of Indian society saying that he had intended to be provocative but 'funny' at the same time to engage the reader.
Besides Adiga, Salman Rushdie (Midnight's Children, 1981), Arundhati Roy (God of Small Things, 1997), and Kiran Desai (The Inheritance of Loss, 2006) won the prize for India.
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Aravind Adiga's Man Booker Prize winner The White Tiger will now be seen in a theatre near you.
Briton Hilary Mantel has won the 2009 Man Booker Prize for her novel Wolf Hall. Mantel's book was picked from a shortlist which included books by authors like A S Byatt, J M Coetzee, Adam Foulds and Sarah Waters.
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