Indian · b. 1974
Aravind Adiga won the 2008 Booker Prize with his debut novel "The White Tiger," a darkly comic account of a village boy's murderous rise from chauffeur to entrepreneur in globalizing India. The Indian author framed the novel as letters to a visiting Chinese premier, mixing confession with social critique. Adiga worked as a journalist before turning to fiction, bringing reportorial directness to his anatomy of Indian class and corruption.