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Aravind Adiga
Aravind Adiga (born 23 October 1974) is an Indo-Australian writer and journalist. His debut novel, The White Tiger, won the 2008 Man Booker Prize.
Biography
Early life and education
- Aravind Adiga was born in Madras (now Chennai) on 23 October 1974 to Dr. K. Madhava Adiga and Usha Adiga, both of whom hailed from Mangalore.
- His paternal grandfather was the late K. Suryanarayana Adiga, former chairman of Karnataka Bank, and a maternal great-grandfather, U.Rama Rao, a popular medical practitioner and Congress politician from Madras.
- Adiga grew up in Mangalore and studied at Canara High School, then at St. Aloysius College, where he completed his SSLC in 1990 and secured the first place in his state in SSLC (his elder brother, Anand, had placed second in SSLC and first in PUC in the state).
Career
- Adiga began his journalistic career as a financial journalist, interning at the Financial Times.
- With pieces published in the Financial Times and Money, he covered the stock market and investment, interviewing, amongst others, Donald Trump.
- 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 this freelance period, he wrote The White Tiger.
- Aravind Adiga now lives in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Other works
- Adiga’s second book, Between the Assassinations, was released in India in November 2008 and in the US and UK in mid-2009; twelve interlinked short stories comprise this book.
- His second novel and third published book, Last Man in Tower, was published in the UK in 2011. His third novel, Selection Day, was published on 8 September 2016.
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