Arvind Adiga has won the prestigious Man Booker Prize for the year 2008. The winning novel ‘The White Tiger’ is his debutant novel. He is among the very few who pocketed this award for their respective first novel. With this achievement he has joined the camp of Arundhati Roy (for ‘The God of Small Things’) and DBC Pierre (for ‘Vernon God Little’). This time the other debut novel in the race was ‘A Fraction of the Whole’ Steve Toltz’s first novel.
Adiga is the fourth Indian born author to win this prize after – Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai, who won the prize in 1981, 1997 and 2006 respectively (V.S. Naipul is not to be counted because not an Indian by birth). Adiga was born in Chennai (Andhra Pradesh) and now in Mumbai (Maharashtra, India). His novel, ‘The White Tiger’ is about the journey of a man from his rural life in an Indian village to achieving success in enrepreneurship.
So grab a copy of ‘The White Tiger’ and enjoy! I am certainly going to do so.
Adiga is the fourth Indian born author to win this prize after – Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai, who won the prize in 1981, 1997 and 2006 respectively (V.S. Naipul is not to be counted because not an Indian by birth). Adiga was born in Chennai (Andhra Pradesh) and now in Mumbai (Maharashtra, India). His novel, ‘The White Tiger’ is about the journey of a man from his rural life in an Indian village to achieving success in enrepreneurship.
So grab a copy of ‘The White Tiger’ and enjoy! I am certainly going to do so.
1 comment:
I enjoyed reading it. Have written about it here:
http://whatamireading.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/the-white-tiger-by-aravind-adiga/
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