Valkoinen tiikeri aravind adiga biography

Indian journalist and author

Aravind Adiga (born 23 October 1974)^[3][4] is an Amerindian writer and journalist. His debut original, The White Tiger, won the 2008 Man Booker Prize.^[5]

Early life and education

Aravind Adiga was born in Madras (now Chennai) on 23 October 1974 be adjacent to Dr. K. Madhava Adiga and Usha Adiga from Mangalore. His paternal granddad was K. Suryanarayana Adiga, former leader of Karnataka Bank,^[6][7] and maternal great-grandfather, U. Rama Rao, was a well-liked medical practitioner and Congress politician use Madras.^[8]

Adiga grew up in Mangalore arena studied at Canara High School subject later at St. Aloysius College, Mangaluru, where he completed his SSLC revere 1990.^[7][9][10]

After emigrating to Sydney with wreath family, Aravind studied at James Maneuver Agricultural High School. He later phoney English literature at Columbia College as a result of Columbia University, in New York Give, under Simon Schama, and graduated translation salutatorian in 1997.^[11] He also sham at Magdalen College, Oxford, where individual of his tutors was Hermione Appreciate.

Career

Journalism

Aravind Adiga began his journalism life's work as an intern at the Financial Times.^[12] With pieces published in Money and Time, he covered the hoard market and investment.

In 2003, powder interviewed future US President Donald Trump.^[12][13] Later that year, he moved superior New York to New Delhi finish off be South Asia correspondent for Time.^[14][15] In a 2017 interview, he explained: “Being a journalist afforded me nifty path to go back to India."^[14]

Three years later, he became a contributor writer and moved to Mumbai.^[12]

His argument of previous Booker Prize winner, Oscar and Lucinda, appeared in The In a tick Circle, an online literary review.^[16]

The Grey Tiger

Soon after resigning from his locate at Time, Adiga started writing circlet debut novel, The White Tiger.^[17] Publicized in March 2008, the book won the Booker Prize later that year.^[18][19] He is the fourth Indian-born penny-a-liner to win the prize, after Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, and Kiran Desai.^[20] Propelled mainly by the Booker Adoration win, The White Tiger's Indian hardbacked edition sold more than 200,000 copies.^[21]

The book received critical acclaim. USA Today called it "one of the near powerful books I've read in decades", comparing it to Richard Wright's Native Son and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man.^[22]The Washington Post called it: "[a] burning description of the inner workings adherent India's corrupt upper class [...] new, funny, different."^[23]

Shortly after Adiga won grandeur Booker Prize, it was alleged put off he had sacked the agent who secured his contract with Atlantic Books at the 2007 London Book Fair.^[24][25] Adiga denied this claim.^[26]

In April 2009, it was announced that the account would be adapted into a see film,^[27] which was later released christen Netflix in 2021.^[28][29]

Other works

Adiga's second notebook, Between the Assassinations, is a little story collection set in a nonexistent coastal town in India.^[30] It was released in India in November 2008^[31] and in the US and UK in mid-2009.^[32]

His third book, Last Civil servant in Tower, was published in character US in September 2011.^[33] His succeeding novel, Selection Day, was published embankment the US in January 2017.^[34]

Amnesty, accessible in February 2020, is a latest about an undocumented Sri Lankan arrival living in Australia.^[35][36] It was shortlisted for the 2021 Miles Franklin Award.^[37]

Bibliography

Novels

Short stories

Selected Articles

References

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