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Aravind Adiga Aravind Adiga i(A115906 works by)
Born: Established: 1974 Chennai,
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India,
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South Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
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Gender: Male
Heritage: Indian
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BiographyHistory

Aravind Adiga was educated in Sydney (including a period at James Ruse Agricultural High School), New York and at Oxford University. According to Sanjukta Dasgupta, Adiga's parents relocated to Australia when he was in middle school and Adiga is an Australian citizen and a dual India-Australia passport holder who 'can be claimed by both Australia and India as a cultural link' ('The Two Way Flow'. p.2). 

A former India correspondent for Time magazine, his articles have also appeared in publications like the Financial Times, the Independent and the Sunday Times.

Adiga won the Man Book Prize for his debut novel The White Tiger in 2008. Adiga has also released a short story collection Between the Assassinations. His additional novels Last Man in Tower : A Novel and Selection Day were published 2011 and 2016 respectively. 

His latest novel Amnesty, debuts in February 2020.

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y separately published work icon Amnesty New York (City) : Scribner , 2020 18555342 2020 novel

'A riveting, suspenseful, and exuberant novel from the bestselling, Man Booker Prize–winning author of The White Tiger and Selection Day about a young illegal immigrant who must decide whether to report crucial information about a murder—and thereby risk deportation.

'Danny—formerly Dhananjaya Rajaratnam—is an illegal immigrant in Sydney, Australia, denied refugee status after he fled from Sri Lanka. Working as a cleaner, living out of a grocery storeroom, for three years he’s been trying to create a new identity for himself. And now, with his beloved vegan girlfriend, Sonja, with his hidden accent and highlights in his hair, he is as close as he has ever come to living a normal life.

'But then one morning, Danny learns a female client of his has been murdered. The deed was done with a knife, at a creek he’d been to with her before; and a jacket was left at the scene, which he believes belongs to another of his clients—a doctor with whom Danny knows the woman was having an affair. Suddenly Danny is confronted with a choice: Come forward with his knowledge about the crime and risk being deported? Or say nothing, and let justice go undone? Over the course of this day, evaluating the weight of his past, his dreams for the future, and the unpredictable, often absurd reality of living invisibly and undocumented, he must wrestle with his conscience and decide if a person without rights still has responsibilities.

'Propulsive, insightful, and full of Aravind Adiga’s signature wit and magic, Amnesty is both a timeless moral struggle and a universal story with particular urgency today.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2021 shortlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award
2021 longlisted British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards Best Film
y separately published work icon Between the Assassinations New York (City) : Free Press , 2009 Z1603702 2009 selected work novel

Set in the small Karnataka town of Kittur, ...Assassinations attempts a portrait of the town and its inhabitants, across class, caste, religion and occupation. Among them are an illiterate Muslim boy who is dazzled by a handsome Islamic terrorist a Dalit bookseller arrested for selling a pirated copy of The Satanic Verses a journalist confronting the yawning gap between what happened during a communal riot and what his newspaper is willing to print and the widow of a farmer who turns in vain to the local Communist leader for help. 'What emerges,' according to the blurb, 'is the moral biography of an Indian town in the seven-year period between the assassinations of Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi-a time of great transformations.' (Publisher's blurb)

2009 shortlisted John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
y separately published work icon The White Tiger London : Atlantic Books , 2008 Z1521556 2008 single work novel (taught in 2 units) 'Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life -- having nothing but his own wits to help him along.' (Publisher's blurb)
2008 shortlisted John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
2010 longlisted International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
2009 shortlisted South East Asia and South Pacific Region Best First Book
2008 winner The Booker Prize
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