'The White Tiger', which won the Booker Prize in 2008, was written by
- A.Aravind Adiga
- B.Kiran Desai
- C.Amitav Ghosh
- D.Jhumpa Lahiri
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The correct answer is A, Aravind Adiga. The White Tiger, his first novel, is told as a series of letters by a driver who rises from a village to become a businessman in Bangalore, and it won the Booker Prize in 2008. He later wrote Last Man in Tower and Selection Day.
Option B, Kiran Desai, won the same prize two years earlier, in 2006, for The Inheritance of Loss, which is why her name sits here. Option C, Amitav Ghosh, is a major Indian novelist in English who has been shortlisted for the Booker but has not won it; he received the Jnanpith Award. Option D, Jhumpa Lahiri, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2000, an American award, not the Booker. The safe line to memorise is Naipaul 1971, Rushdie 1981, Roy 1997, Kiran Desai 2006 and Adiga 2008.
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