Author
Aravind Adiga
Birth Date
October 23, 1974
(51 Years)
Associated Country
India
Aravind Adiga is an Indian-Australian novelist and journalist known for his sharp, socially critical fiction about modern India. He was born in Chennai and raised in India and Australia, later studying at Columbia University and Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.
Adiga gained international acclaim with his debut novel The White Tiger (2008), which won the Booker Prize. The novel offers a darkly comic portrayal of class inequality and ambition in contemporary India. He has also written Between the Assassinations (2008), Last Man in Tower (2011), Selection Day (2016), and Amnesty (2020).
His work is known for its biting satire, moral complexity, and unflinching depiction of social inequality. Adiga is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary voices in Indian English literature.
Adiga gained international acclaim with his debut novel The White Tiger (2008), which won the Booker Prize. The novel offers a darkly comic portrayal of class inequality and ambition in contemporary India. He has also written Between the Assassinations (2008), Last Man in Tower (2011), Selection Day (2016), and Amnesty (2020).
His work is known for its biting satire, moral complexity, and unflinching depiction of social inequality. Adiga is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary voices in Indian English literature.
Books
Amnesty 2021
Danny—formerly Dhananjaya Rajaratnam—is an illegal immigrant in Sydney, Australia, denied refugee status after he fled from Sri Lanka. Working as a cleaner, living out of a grocery storeroom, for...
Selection Day 2018
Manjunath Kumar is fourteen and living in a slum in Mumbai. He knows he is good at cricket—if not as good as his older brother, Radha. He knows that he fears and resents his domineering and...
Last Man in Tower 2012
Real estate developer Dharmen Shah rose from nothing to create an empire and hopes to seal his legacy with a luxury building named the Shanghai. Larger-than-life Shah is a dangerous man to refuse. But...
Welcome to Kittur, India. Of its 193,432 residents, only 89 declare themselves to be without religion or caste. And if the characters in Between the Assassinations are any indication, Kittur is an...
The White Tiger 2008
No saris. No scents. No spices. No music. No lyricism. No illusions.
This is India now.
Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven...