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LONDON: India's first time novelist Aravind Adiga on Wednesday won the 50,000 pounds ($87,000) Man Booker Prize 2008 for his novel, The White Aravind Adiga poses for photographers...
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- News Source: Hindu | about 1 year agoAravind Adiga, the 33-year-old, Chennai-born author won the £50,000 Man Booker Prize on Tuesday for his debut novel “The White Tiger.” For someone who had just won the English-speaking world’s most important literary award, he sounded...
- News Source: India Abroad | about 1 year agoAravind Adiga, whose The White Tiger bagged this year's Booker Prize, is the eighth winner of the prestigious award who has an Indian connection. India has been consistently producing award-winning authors or inspiring other writers to base their...
- News Source: The Guardian | about 1 year agoOutside Portillo's courtroom, thus far, fewer pulses seem to have been raised by Aravind Adiga's victory . This may be because only about 3,000 people have so far bought his only book to date; or because the famous potential winners were knocked out...
- News Source: The New York Observer | about 1 year agoichael Cader, the man who maintains the subscription-only industry news portal Publishers Marketplace, continues to be vexed by the Man Booker Prize. The committee's insistence on putting forth a "longlist" of 13 titles one month before announcing...
- News Source: The Globe and Mail | about 1 year agoAravind Adiga's Booker Prize-winning tale of the son of a rickshaw puller who dreams of escaping poverty rings true in India, where 800 million of its billion-plus population live on about 50 cents a day. But for young, urban Indians, perhaps even...
- News Source: International Herald Tribune | about 1 year agoAravind Adiga, 33, won the 40th Man Booker prize on Tuesday night for his debut novel, "The White Tiger," a vivid exploration of India's class struggle told through the story of a village boy who becomes the chauffeur to a rich man. Adiga, who lives...
- News Source: Rediff | about 1 year agoEnjoying the spotlight after winning the 2008 Man Booker prize for his debut novel, young Indian novelist Aravind Adiga says his second novel is "almost done" but declined to give details about the upcoming book. The 33-year-old journalist based in...
- News Source: Chicago Tribune | about 1 year agoBritish Indian author Salman Rushdie shot to fame in 1981 when his second novel, "Midnight's Children," a magical-realist exploration of Indian history, won the Booker Prize for Fiction. It also won the "Best of the Booker" prize in 2008, on the 40th...
- News Source: The Guardian | about 1 year agoThe fall of Man Booker It hasn't been the best year for the literary prize, but where is the sense in blaming male academics? This year looks like being a total flopperoo for the Man Booker . The long and short lists were met with a gigantic...
- News Source: Time of India | about 1 year agoPrime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday congratulated 2008 Man Booker prize winner Aravind Adiga, saying the nation was proud of him. "The nation is proud of the international recognition of Adiga's talent," he said in his congratulatory message...
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