First-time novelist wins Booker
Aravind Adiga has won this year's Man Booker Prize with his debut novel The White Tiger.
The 33-year-old Indian-born writer was also the youngest author on the shortlist.
He beat favourite Sebastian Barry to take the £50,000 prize. The other contenders were Amitav Ghosh, Steve Toltz, Linda Grant and Philip Hensher.
Chairman of the judges, former politician Michael Portillo, said: "In many ways it was the perfect novel."
The White Tiger, a tale of two Indias, tells the story of Balram, the son of a rickshaw puller in the heartlands, one of the "faceless" poor left behind by the country's recent economic boom.
It charts his journey from working in a teashop to entrepreneurial success.
The 33-year-old Indian-born writer was also the youngest author on the shortlist.
He beat favourite Sebastian Barry to take the £50,000 prize. The other contenders were Amitav Ghosh, Steve Toltz, Linda Grant and Philip Hensher.
Chairman of the judges, former politician Michael Portillo, said: "In many ways it was the perfect novel."
The White Tiger, a tale of two Indias, tells the story of Balram, the son of a rickshaw puller in the heartlands, one of the "faceless" poor left behind by the country's recent economic boom.
It charts his journey from working in a teashop to entrepreneurial success.
posted by temporal at 10/14/2008
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