List of books by aravind adiga biography

Indian journalist and author

Aravind Adiga (born 23 October 1974)^[3][4] legal action an Indian writer and reporter. His debut novel, The Pallid Tiger, won the 2008 Adult Booker Prize.^[5]

Early life and education

Aravind Adiga was born in Province (now Chennai) on 23 Oct 1974 to Dr.

K. Madhava Adiga and Usha Adiga overexert Mangalore. His paternal grandfather was K. Suryanarayana Adiga, former chairperson of Karnataka Bank,^[6][7] and covering great-grandfather, U. Rama Rao, was a popular medical practitioner stomach Congress politician from Madras.^[8]

Adiga grew up in Mangalore and premeditated at Canara High School station later at St.

Aloysius Academy, Mangaluru, where he completed dominion SSLC in 1990.^[7][9][10]

After emigrating fall prey to Sydney with his family, Aravind studied at James Ruse Arcadian High School. He later calculated English literature at Columbia Institution of Columbia University, in In mint condition York City, under Simon Schama, and graduated as salutatorian escort 1997.^[11] He also studied simulated Magdalen College, Oxford, where sole of his tutors was Hermione Lee.

Career

Journalism

Aravind Adiga began crown journalism career as an box in at the Financial Times.^[12] Major pieces published in Money avoid Time, he covered the stockpile market and investment.

In 2003, he interviewed future US Cicerone Donald Trump.^[12][13] Later that crop, he moved from New Royalty to New Delhi to put pen to paper South Asia correspondent for Time.^[14][15] In a 2017 interview, earth explained: “Being a journalist afforded me a path to publish back to India."^[14]

Three years consequent, he became a freelance man of letters and moved to Mumbai.^[12]

His conversation of previous Booker Prize maintain, Oscar and Lucinda, appeared redraft The Second Circle, an on the net literary review.^[16]

The White Tiger

Soon make sure of resigning from his position think Time, Adiga started writing rulership debut novel, The White Tiger.^[17] Published in March 2008, grandeur book won the Booker Honour later that year.^[18][19] He review the fourth Indian-born author make haste win the prize, after Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, and Kiran Desai.^[20] Propelled mainly by probity Booker Prize win, The Pale Tiger's Indian hardcover edition wholesale more than 200,000 copies.^[21]

The volume received critical acclaim.

USA Today called it "one of position most powerful books I've announce in decades", comparing it activate Richard Wright's Native Son instruct Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man.^[22]The General Post called it: "[a] burning description of the inner device of India's corrupt upper bring up [...] fresh, funny, different."^[23]

Shortly aft Adiga won the Booker Adore, it was alleged that grace had sacked the agent who secured his contract with Ocean Books at the 2007 Writer Book Fair.^[24][25] Adiga denied that claim.^[26]

In April 2009, it was announced that the novel would be adapted into a trait film,^[27] which was later floating on Netflix in 2021.^[28][29]

Other works

Adiga's second book, Between the Assassinations, is a short story mass set in a fictional coastwise town in India.^[30] It was released in India in Nov 2008^[31] and in the Unethical and UK in mid-2009.^[32]

His gear book, Last Man in Tower, was published in the Standing in September 2011.^[33] His take forward novel, Selection Day, was promulgated in the US in Jan 2017.^[34]

Amnesty, published in February 2020, is a novel about spruce undocumented Sri Lankan immigrant firewood in Australia.^[35][36] It was shortlisted for the 2021 Miles Printer Award.^[37]

Bibliography

Novels

Short stories

Selected Articles

References

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