Aravind Adiga was born in 1974 in Madras (now called Chennai), and
grew up in Mangalore in the south of India. He was educated at Columbia
University in New York and Magdalen College, Oxford. His articles
have appeared in publications such as the New Yorker, the
Sunday Times, the Financial Times, and the Times
of India. His first novel, The White Tiger, won the
Man Booker Prize for fiction in 2008. Subsequent novels are: Last Man
in Tower (2011), Selection Day (2016) and Amnesty (2020).