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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: Hindustan times | 2 months agoIndia's first time novelist Aravind Adiga on Wednesday won the 50,000 pounds (USD 87,000) Man Booker Prize 2008 for his novel, The White Tiger . Young Indian writer Aravind Adiga is one of the two first-time novelists on the 2008 Man Booker's...
- News Source: Sify News | 2 months agoBeating predictions by bookies and others, debutant Indian novelist 33-year-old Aravind Adiga's book The White Tiger was declared the winner of the prestigious Man Booker Prize for Fiction for 2008. Adiga beat favourite Sebastian Barry to take the 50,...
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- News Source: BDNews24 | 2 months agoDebut Indian novelist Aravind Adiga has won this year's Man Booker Prize, one of the world's most prestigious literary awards, with "The White Tiger." It was only the third time in the Booker's 40-year history that a first-time writer had claimed the...
- News Source: Time of India | 2 months 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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- News Source: Rediff | 2 months agoBooker Prize is the Holy Grail' October 17, 2008 M umbai-based Aravind Adiga arrived in London last week as one of the six finalists for the Man Booker Prize, one of the literary world's most prestigious awards, hoping to meet with the fellow...
- News Source: Seattle Times | 2 months agoThe book is a Horatio Alger story of sorts — if one of Alger's society-climbing heroes had made his smartest move by slitting the throat of his kindly employer. Adiga, a former journalist living in Mumbai, shows deep concerns about Indian...
- News Source: Press TV | 2 months agoChairman of the judges Michael Portillo praised the novel for tackling important social and political issues in modern-day India. "What set this one apart was its originality," Portillo said on Tuesday. "For many of us this was entirely new territory...
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