Aravind Adiga wins Man Booker Prize 2008

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its inspiration from India or Indian identity. The £50000 prize, announced in London, makes Adiga the fifth Booker winner of Indian ethnicity and the second youngest winner in the award's 40-year history, Ben Okri was 32 when he won for The Famished Road in 1991. He is also only the third winner to triumph with a debut novel. The first debut novelist to win the Booker was Arundhati Roy. Aravind Adiga joins VS Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai in the Booker hall of fame. ...