Indian writer Aravind Adiga won the Booker for 2008: The book “The White Tiger” written by Aravind Adiga won the prestigious “The Man Booker Prize for Fiction” commonly known as Booker Prize for the year 2008. Mr. Aravind will receive $87K as prize money. The White Tiger is the first book of Mr. Aravind. Indian writer Mr. Amith Ghosh was also competed for the award.

“The White Tiger” was the story of a person who lived in a remote village in India and grown up as top business man.

Aravind Adiga was born in 1974 in Chennai. He studied at Oxford University in Colombia. He worked as journalist for India in Time Magazine. His articles were published in many magazines.

Previously the Indians who received the Booker were V.S. Naipal, Arundhathi Roy, Slamond Rushdie and Kiran Desai. Mr. Aravind Adiga was the fifth Indian to receive this award.

 

The Booker Prize is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of either the Commonwealth of Nations or Ireland.

The prize was originally known as the Booker-McConnell Prize after the company Booker-McConnell began sponsoring the event in 1968, and became commonly known as the "Booker Prize" or simply "the Booker". When administration of the prize was transferred to the Booker Prize Foundation in 2002, the title sponsor became the investment company Man Group, which opted to retain "Booker" as part of the official title of the prize. The prize money awarded with the Booker Prize was originally £21,000, and was subsequently raised to £50,000 in 2002 under the sponsorship of the Man Group.