His latest work is Last Man in Tower (2011). It was shortlisted for the 2009 John Llewellyn-Rhys Memorial Prize. He is the author of the novels Amnesty Selection Day, now a series on Netflix The White Tiger, which won the Man Booker Prize and the story collection Between the Assassinations. His second novel is Between the Assassinations (2009), which charts the lives of the residents of an Indian town over a seven-year period between the assassinations of Indira Gandhi and her son Rajiv. Aravind Adiga was born in India in 1974 and attended Columbia and Oxford universities. It takes the form of a series of unsent letters to the Chinese premier from Balram Halwai, a murderer who left his village to work as a chauffeur in Delhi. 1 The novel provides a darkly humorous perspective of India's class struggle in a globalized world as told through a retrospective narration from Balram Halwai, a village boy. It was published in 2008 and won the 40th Booker Prize the same year. His debut novel, The White Tiger, was published in 2008 and won the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. The White Tiger is a novel by Indian author Aravind Adiga. His articles on politics, business and the arts have appeared in many publications. Since 2000, he has worked as a journalist, first as a financial correpsondent in New York, then returning to India in 2003 to work as a correspondent for TIME magazine. Arvind Adiga‘s The Booker Prize winning Novel, The White Tiger‘ has earned the reputation in contemporary literature along with The God of Small Things‘, The Namesake‘, The Inheritance of Loss‘ etc. He studied English Literature at Columbia University, New York, and gained an M.Phil. Aravind Adiga was born in India in 1974, and educated in India and Australia.
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