‘White Tiger’ cub Aravind Adiga roars to Booker Prize win – USATODAY.com

Now White Tiger (Free Press, $14, paperback) has won Britain’s prestigious Man Booker

Prize, worth $87,000. 

At 33, Adiga is the second-youngest writer to win in the prize’s 40-year history.

He is also the fourth debut novelist and fifth Indian writer to win. Born in Chennai (Madras), he studied at Columbia University and Oxford. A former correspondent for Time, he now lives in Mumbai.