Aravind Adiga wins Man Booker Prize 2008

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Aravind Adiga wins Man Booker Prize 2008

This years Man Booker Prize 2008 Britains best known and most generous literary award has been won by a 33 year old first time Indian novelist Aravind Adiga for his novel White Tiger. The work is based upon vivid exploration of Indias class struggle told through the story of a village boy who becomes the chauffeur to a rich man. The awards administrators emphasized, "The White Tiger is the ninth winning novel to take its inspiration from India or Indian identity. The £50,000 prize, announced in London, makes Adiga the fifth Booker winner of Indian ethnicity and the second youngest winner in the award's 40-year history, Ben Okri was 32 when he won for The Famished Road in 1991. He is also only the third winner to triumph with a debut novel. The first debut novelist to win the Booker was Arundhati Roy. Aravind Adiga joins V S Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai in the Booker hall of fame.

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[2391jessie]

Age 33...wow.

[Petey123123]

he earned that award and i'm glad he got it. I love that novel

[hmvdj]

awesome book!! he deserved it