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Indian-born Australian citizen and debut novelist Aravind Adiga has won the prestigious Booker Prize for Fiction, with his novel The White Tiger. Adiga was born in Madras (now Chennai) and now lives in Mumbai. He spent some years growing up in Australia before studying at Columbia and Oxford Universities and is a former correspondent for Time magazine in India. Michael Portillo, Chair of the Booker judges commented that “The White Tiger prevailed because the judges felt that it shocked and entertained in equal measure… The book gains from dealing with pressing social issues and significant global developments with astonishing humour.” Now in its 40th year, The Booker prize aims to reward the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland. This year’s short listed author's included Sebastian Barry, Amitav Ghosh, Linda Grant, Philip Hensher, and fellow Australian Steve Toltz for his novel A Fraction of the Whole.

Adiga has said that "The tone of [the novel] was meant to be provocative and even a bit nasty at times. It's meant to get people thinking."