Aravind Adiga

Born: 23 October 1974

• He is an Indo-Australian writer and journalist.
• His debut novel, The White Tiger, won the 2008 Man Booker Prize.
• His  second book, Between the Assassinations, was released in India in November 2008 and in the US and UK in mid-2009,twelve interlinked short stories comprise this book.
• He won the prize, it was alleged that Adiga had, the previous year, sacked the agent who had secured his contract with Atlantic Books at the 2007 London Book Fair.

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