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 Aravind Adiga, born in Chennai on 23rd october ,1974 spent his earlier days in Mangalore where their grandparents were hailed from. His childhood times and studies were at Mangalore, where he secured first rank in SSLC in Karnataka State. After their immigration to Australia he continued his studies in Sydney. He has chosen English literature as his option during his collegiate and studied in Columbia University, New york. He also studied at Magdalen College, Oxford. His initial career was with times of India and some in financial times. After his studies, he started his career as Journalist i.e., financial journalist in Financial Times. His excellent perfomance at Financial Times by covering the stock market and Investment, interviewing and reviews of previous booker prize winners appeared as an online literary review. This paved the way to improve his career which gave opportunity to serve as a South Asia correspondent in TIME before going freelance. During his freelance period, he started writing 'The White Tiger', his debut novel for which he won the Man Booker Prize for the year 2008. By winning this prestigious award he become a fourth Indian born author to win the prize. The White Tiger is a tale of two Indias. Balram's journey from darkness of village life to the light of entrepreneurial success is utterly amoral, brilliantly irreverent, deeply endearing and altogether unforgettable. 'The White Tiger' novel reflects the contrast between India's rise as a modern global economy and the lead character, Balram, who comes from crushing rural poverty. Born in a village in heartland India, the son of a rickshaw puller, Balram is taken out of school by his family and put to work in a teashop. As he crushes coals and wipes tables, he nurses a dream of escape - of breaking away from the banks of Mother Ganga, into whose depths have seeped the remains of a hundred generations.
 Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay on 19 June,1947,His schooling was in Bombay and higher studies in Cambridge.His intial career started in advertising agency, During these days he started to write his first novel Grimus,the book published in 1975 was a total floop ,even not noticed by anyone as a book. Salman Rushdie left behind his crtics and failure to start his second book "The midnight's children" as a full time novelist. The book published in 1981 made a stratight entry to win the Booker Prize.Now Salman Rushdie was accepeted as a acclamied novelist who can produce a quality novel with his sincerity and dedication.The midnight's children won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction), an Arts Council Writers' Award and the English-Speaking Union Award, and in 1993 was judged to have been the 'Booker of Bookers', the best novel to have won the Booker Prize for Fiction in the award's 25-year history. The novel narrates key events in the history of India through the story of pickle-factory worker Saleem Sinai.'Saleem Sinai, is born at the exact moment that India becomes independent. He later discovers that all children born in India between 12 AM and 1 AM on 15 August 1947, are imbued with special telepathic powers. Saleem thus attempts to use these powers to convene the eponymous children. The convention, or Midnight Children's Conference, is in many ways reflective of the issues India faced in its early statehood concerning the cultural, linguistic, religious, and political differences faced by such a vastly diverse nation. Saleem acts as a telepathic conduit, bringing hundreds of geographically disparate children into contact while also attempting to discover the meaning of their shared gifts. In particular, those children born closest to the stroke of midnight wield more powerful gifts than the others. Shiva and Parvati are two of these children with notable gifts and roles in Saleem's story. Rushdie's third novel, Shame (1983),reflects the political situation in Pakistan.'Shame' won the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction. The publication in 1988 of his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, lead to accusations of blasphemy against Islam and demonstrations by Islamist groups in India and Pakistan. The orthodox Iranian leadership issued a fatwa against Rushdie on 14 February 1989 - effectively a sentence of death - and he was forced into hiding under the protection of the British government and police. The book itself centres on the adventures of two Indian actors, Gibreel and Saladin, who fall to earth in Britain when their Air India jet explodes. It won the Whitbread Novel Award in 1988. Books from Salman Rushdie:Grimus(1975), Midnight's Children(1981),Shame(1983),The Jaguar Smile(1987),The Satanic Verses(1988),Haroun and the Sea of Stories(1990),In Good Faith(1990),Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991(1991),The Wizard of Oz(1992),East, West(1994),The Moor's Last Sigh(1995),The Vintage Book of Indian Writing(1997),The Ground Beneath Her Feet(1999),Fury(2001),Step Across This Line: Collected Non-fiction 1992-2002 (2002),Shalimar The Clown(2005),The Best American Short Storiesin Harcourt(2008),The Enchantress of Florence(2008).
Vikram Seth is also the author of a travel book, From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet (1983), an account of a journey through Tibet, China and Nepal that won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, and a libretto, Arion and the Dolphin: A Libretto (1994), which was performed at the English National Opera in June 1994, with music by Alec Roth. His poetry includes Mappings (1980), The Humble Administrator's Garden (1985), winner of the Commonwealth Poetry Prize (Asia), and All You Who Sleep Tonight: Poems (1990). His children's book, Beastly Tales from Here and There (1992), consists of ten stories about animals told in verse.Vikram Seth was also commissioned by the English National Opera to write a libretto based on the Greek legend of Arion and the Dolphin. Vikram Seth has written some very fine poems also. His poetry includes Mappings (1980), From Heaven Lake (1983), The Humble Administrator's Garden (1985), All You Who Sleep Tonight: Poems (1990) and Three Chinese Poets (1992). His children's book, Beastly Tales from Here and There (1992) consists of ten stories about animals. Vikram Seth has also authored a travel book, From Heaven Lake: Travels through Sin kiang and Tibet (1983). It is an account of a journey through Tibet, China and Nepal. Vikram Seth was also commissioned by the English National Opera to write a libretto based on the Greek legend of Arion and the Dolphin. The opera was performed for the first time in June 1994. Works of Vikaram Seth: Books: The Golden Gate (1986) Poetry: Mappings (1980)
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Arundhati Roy was little know to anyone before she authored " The God of Small Things " her debut novel.She won Booker Prize for this novel and become popular in a over night , It sold over 6,000,000 copies worldwide and has been translated into over 20 languages.The name Arundhati Roy become a household name.The novel basicaly revolves around her life spent in Kerala. Born on 24 November, 1961 in Shillong then brought up in Kerala and Tamilnadu.Before" The god of Small Things " she was working as a screen play writer in movies and television.Her role in the Narmdha Bachav Andholam made her a social activist and she started publically critising the polices of the Government.She has won many more national and international awards including Lannan Foundation Prize for Cultural Freedom, she was also granted the 2006 Sahitya Akademi Award for her book The Algebra of Infinite Justice, but refused the award to protest Indian governmental actions.