Aravind Adiga | |
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| Born | 23 October 1974 Madras (now Chennai), Tamil Nadu, India |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Alma mater | Columbia University Magdalen College, Oxford [1] |
| Genre | Novel and short story |
| Notable works | The White Tiger , Last Man in Tower , Selection Day |
| Notable awards | 2008 Man Booker Prize ( The White Tiger ) [2] |
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Aravind Adiga (born 23 October 1974) [3] [4] is an Indian writer and journalist. His debut novel, The White Tiger , won the 2008 Man Booker Prize. [5]
Aravind Adiga was born in Madras (now Chennai) on 23 October 1974 to Dr. K. Madhava Adiga and Usha Adiga from Mangalore. His paternal grandfather was K. Suryanarayana Adiga, former chairman of Karnataka Bank, [6] [7] and maternal great-grandfather, U. Rama Rao, was a popular medical practitioner and Congress politician from Madras. [8]
Adiga grew up in Mangalore and studied at Canara High School and later at St. Aloysius College, Mangaluru, where he completed his SSLC in 1990. [7] [9] [10]
After emigrating to Sydney with his family, Aravind studied at James Ruse Agricultural High School. He later studied English literature at Columbia College of Columbia University, in New York City, under Simon Schama, and graduated as salutatorian in 1997. [11] He also studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, where one of his tutors was Hermione Lee.
Aravind Adiga began his journalism career as an intern at the Financial Times. [12] With pieces published in Money and Time , he covered the stock market and investment.
In 2003, he interviewed future US President Donald Trump. [12] [13] Later that year, he moved from New York to New Delhi to be South Asia correspondent for Time. [14] [15] In a 2017 interview, he explained: “Being a journalist afforded me a path to go back to India." [14]
Three years later, he became a freelance writer and moved to Mumbai. [12]
His review of previous Booker Prize winner, Oscar and Lucinda , appeared in The Second Circle, an online literary review. [16]
Soon after resigning from his position at Time, Adiga started writing his debut novel, The White Tiger. [17] Published in March 2008, the book won the Booker Prize later that year. [18] [19] He is the fourth Indian-born author to win the prize, after Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, and Kiran Desai. [20] Propelled mainly by the Booker Prize win, The White Tiger's Indian hardcover edition sold more than 200,000 copies. [21]
The book received critical acclaim. USA Today called it "one of the most powerful books I've read in decades", comparing it to Richard Wright's Native Son and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man . [22] The Washington Post called it: "[a] blistering description of the inner workings of India's corrupt upper class [...] fresh, funny, different." [23]
Shortly after Adiga won the Booker Prize, it was alleged that he had sacked the agent who secured his contract with Atlantic Books at the 2007 London Book Fair. [24] [25] Adiga denied this claim. [26]
In April 2009, it was announced that the novel would be adapted into a feature film, [27] which was later released on Netflix in 2021. [28] [29]
Adiga's second book, Between the Assassinations , is a short story collection set in a fictional coastal town in India. [30] It was released in India in November 2008 [31] and in the US and UK in mid-2009. [32]
His third book, Last Man in Tower , was published in the US in September 2011. [33] His next novel, Selection Day , was published in the US in January 2017. [34]
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