Birthplace: Madras, India
Aravind Adiga is an Indian writer who won the Man Booker Prize in
2008 for his novel, The White Tiger. Adiga was born
in Madras, India in 1974 and was partly raised in Australia. He was
educated in English literature at Columbia and Oxford Universities.
Adiga is a former correspondent for TIME Magazine and has
contributed writing to The Financial Times,
The Independent, and The Sunday
Times. He published The White Tiger in
2008.
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