Aravind Adiga

Aravind Adiga ( Template: Lang- kn, born October 23, 1974 in Chennai, India) is an Indian journalist and writer. His first novel, The White Tiger ( German: The White Tiger ) won the 2008 Booker Prize.

Life

Aravind Adiga was born as the son of the doctor K. Madhava Adiga and Usha in Chennai and grew up in Mangalore. He emigrated with his family to Sydney in 1990 and attended the St. Aloysius College. Then he studied at James Ruse Agricultural College. Later Adiga studied English literature at Columbia University, New York, Simon Schama and at Magdalen College at Hermione Lee. In 1997 he completed his studies. Since then he has worked as a journalist in Asia and now lives in Mumbai.

Adiga began his journalistic work as a financial journalist for the Financial Times, Money and the Wall Street Journal. He reported on the stock market and made many interviews, among others, Donald Trump. His article about the book Oscar and Lucinda appeared in Second Circle as online literature review. Then he stayed for three years in South Asia as a correspondent before he worked as a freelancer. In his spare time Adiga wrote the novel The White Tiger, for the Booker Prize he received in 2008.

Aravind Adiga is the fourth Indian winner of the Booker Prize, by Kiran Desai, Arundhati Roy and Salman Rushdie. He has donated his former Catholic school in Mangalore a large part of the Booker prize money of 50,000 pounds.

On the question of which authors have most influenced him in his book, Adiga replied that there were three African-American writers - Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin and Richard Wright. After Shirin Sojitrawalla " exhausted [ the novel ], not least by the stark contrasts that it orbits frankly: masters and servants, white and brown, rich and poor, East and West, New Delhi and Old Delhi, power and powerlessness, light and darkness. "It's their opinion " a picaresque novel and, autobiography of a half-baked Indian ', the roaring comic shorts the Indian reality with the decal of the subcontinent. "

Adiga 's novel has been distributed before winning the Booker Prize " in astronomical edition as piracy " in India. The pirated version is sold by the people " in whose name it is written and it - that makes the explosive power - not read as a novel. The tiger has broken loose, literature intervenes in life. "

Works

  • 2008 The White Tiger. Atlantic Books, 2008, ISBN 978-1-84354-722-8 The white tiger. (Novel) from the English by Ingo Herzke; C. H. Beck Verlag, Munich 2008 ISBN 3-406-57691-5 - Extract on perlentaucher.de
  • Between the attacks. Tales from a city. (Novel) from the English by Klaus Modick; C. H. Beck Verlag, Munich 2009 ISBN 978-3-406-59270-6
  • Last Man in Tower. (Novel) from the English by Susann Urban and Ilija Trojanov. CH Beck Verlag, Munich 2011 ISBN 978-3-406-62156-7.

Audio productions

  • The white tiger. Read by Jens Wawrczeck, Audio Publishing (DAV), Berlin, 2009, ISBN 978-3-89813-829-1 ( Reading, 5 CDs, 392 min)
  • The white tiger. Radio drama based on the novel of the same name from the English by Ingo Herzke, editing and directing: Beate Andres, Production: Germany Kultur / NDR 2012 with, inter alia, Stefan Kaminski, Markus Meyer, Andreas Schmidt, Kathrin Angerer, Christian Grashof, Margit Bendokat Peter Kurth
  • Between the attacks. Tales from a city. Read by Heikko German man, The Audio Publishers (DAV), Berlin, 2009, ISBN 978-3-89813-891-8 ( Reading, 6 CDs, 395 min)
  • Last Man in Tower. Read by Sebastian Frankowski, The Audio Publishers (DAV ), Berlin, 2011, ISBN 978-3-862-31132-3 ( Reading, 6 CDs, 511 min)
  • No way to Germany. In: Frankfurter Rundschau, 14 November, 2008
  • Dear vain at Einaudi as for a lot of money in Germany. FAZ.NET 25 November, 2008
  • Bollywood is the ultimate art form without irony. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, March 27, 2009
  • Attacks in Mumbai. The city, which I love, has given himself away. FAZ.NET, December 1, 2008
  • The happiest man in the world. In: Frankfurter Rundschau, 21 April, 2009
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