
Aravind Adiga, a 33-year-old first-time novelist from India, is the surprise winner of this year’s Man Booker £50,000 ($87,000) prize for fiction for his “perfect” book The White Tiger.
By Peter Aspden, Arts Correspondent
Published: October 15 2008 01:43 | Last updated: October 15 2008 01:43

Aravind Adiga, a 33-year-old first-time novelist from India, is the surprise winner of this year’s Man Booker £50,000 ($87,000) prize for fiction for his “perfect” book The White Tiger.