Aravind Adiga is named the winner of the £50,000 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for The White Tiger, published by Atlantic (October 14, 2008).
The Indian writer is one of two first-time novelists on the 2008 Man Booker shortlist of six. The other is Steve Toltz. Only three other debut novelists have achieved this in the past – Keri Hulme for her novel The Bone People, DBC Pierre in 2003 for his novel Vernon God Little and Arundhati Roy in 1997 for The God of Small Things.
Thirty-three year old Aravind Adiga, …

Tishani Doshi was born in Madras to a Welsh mother and a Gujarati father, and is based in India, after periods living in America and England. Her first book of poems, Countries of the Body won the 2006 Forward prize for best first collection. She was the winner of the 2006 All-India Poetry Competition, and a finalist in the Outlook-Picador Non-fiction competition in 2005. Her first novel, The Pleasure Seekers, will be published by Bloomsbury in 2009. Currently underway is a second volume of poetry and a biography of the …