Man Booker Prize 2008 : General Knowlegde

 

It was another proud moment for India when Aravind Adiga won Man Booker Prize for the year 2008 for his book "The White Tiger".

Some Facts:

• This was Aravind Adiga's first novel.
• He won the prize for Fiction Category.
• He is the second youngest after Ben Okri, who won in 1991 aged 32.
• His book is a "story of two Indias" revolving around the character named "Balram Halwai".
• Aravind is former correspondent for TIME magazine in India.
• Prize Amount: 50,000-pound awarded at Guildhall in London.
• The White Tiger has been published by Atlantic Books
• The other authors in the shortlist were Amitav Ghosh for "Sea of Poppies", Steve Toltz for "A Fraction of the Whole", Linda Grant for "The Clothes on Their Backs", Sebastian Barry for "The Secret Scripture" and Philip Hensher for "The Northern Clemency".

About the Award:

1. Man Booker is awarded annually for the best novel in the British Commonwealth and the Republic of Ireland.
2. Previous debutants who won Man Booker Prize:

• Keri Hulme in 1985 (Book: The Bone People)
• Arundhati Roy in 1997 (Book: God of Small Things)
• DBC Pierre in 2003 (Book: Vernon God Little)

1. Other winners from India:

• V S Naipaul (1971) - Indian Origin
• Salman Rushdie (1981)
• Arundhati Roy (1997)
• Kiran Desai (2006)

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