Indian Author Wins Man Booker Prize

Aravind Adiga, 33, has emerged as the second novelist of Indian origin to win the prestigious Man Booker Prize for his debut novel The White Tiger – as Arundhati Roy did in 1997 with The God Of Small Things.

The Independent reports: “Aravind Adiga, a first-time author from India, won the Man Booker Prize last night with his novel The White Tiger, which was praised by the judges for presenting the ‘dark side of India’ and likened to Shakespeare’s Macbeth ‘with a delicious twist’.” More here…