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Aravind Adiga
Winning the Booker Prize with his debut novel The White Tiger.
The White Tiger · Selection Day
- Born
- 23 October 1974
- Birthplace
- Chennai, India
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Aravind Adiga
Aravind Adiga is an Indian-born writer and journalist whose fiction examines ambition, inequality and social mobility. His books have also explored cricket, housing and migration.
Early life
Growing up
Spent his childhood in Mangalore before his family moved to Sydney.
Literature
Studied at Columbia University and Oxford.
Career
- Early 2000s
Journalism
Worked for publications including Time and the Financial Times.
- 2003
India
Returned as a South Asia correspondent.
- 2008
Booker breakthrough
Published The White Tiger and won the prize.
- 2011–2020
Later fiction
Published Last Man in Tower, Selection Day and Amnesty.
Selected work
The White Tiger
A driver’s account of his rise through an unequal society.
Selection Day
A novel about cricket and family ambition.
Amnesty
A story centred on an undocumented migrant in Sydney.
Beyond work
Return to India
Has described journalism as the route that enabled his return to the country.
Giving back
Donated some Booker winnings to his former school, which runs an orphanage.
Sources & photo credit
Life, career and references ↗Biography and contributions ↗Interview and personal background ↗Original photograph. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.