Aravind Adiga was born in Madras, India in 1974. He attended Columbia and Oxford universities, where he studied English literature. After university, Adiga worked in India as a journalist, publishing work as a correspondent with Time magazine and with the Financial Times. He currently lives in Mumbai, India.
His debut novel, The White Tiger, was published in 2008 and named a New York Times bestseller. It was also awarded the Booker Prize in 2008. The film version of the novel premiered in 2021. Adiga has since published a collection of twelve interlinked short stories entitled Between the Assassinations (2008), and the novels Last Man in Tower (2011), Selection Day (2016), and Amnesty...
