Aravind Adiga

Aravind Adiga ( Kannada ಅರವಿಂದ ಅಡಿಗ , 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 Booker Prize in 2008 .

Life

Aravind Adiga was born as the son of the doctor K. Madhava and Usha Adiga in Chennai and grew up in Mangaluru . He emigrated with his family to Sydney in 1990 and attended St. Aloysius College there. He then studied at the James Ruse Agricultural School. Adiga later studied English literature at Columbia University , New York , with Simon Schama and at Magdalen College with Hermione Lee. In 1997 he finished his studies. Since then he has been working 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 did many interviews, including with Donald Trump . His article on the novel Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey appeared in Second Circle as an online literary review. He then stayed in South Asia as a correspondent for three years before going freelance. In his spare time, Adiga wrote the novel The White Tiger , for which he received the Booker Prize in 2008 .

Aravind Adiga is the fourth Indian Booker Prize winner, after Kiran Desai , Arundhati Roy and Salman Rushdie . He donated a large portion of the Booker prize money of £ 50,000 to his former Catholic school in Mangaluru.

When asked which authors influenced him most in his book, Adiga replied that there were three African American writers - Ralph Ellison , James Baldwin, and Richard Wright . According to Shirin Sojitrawalla, “ [the novel] draws on the stark contrasts that it frankly encircles: masters and servants, white and brown, rich and poor, west and east, New Delhi and Old Delhi, power and powerlessness, light and darkness . “In their opinion, it is“ a picaresque novel and the 'autobiography of a half-baked Indian', which, in a roaringly funny way, short-circuits the Indian reality with the decal of the subcontinent. "

Before winning the Booker Prize, Adiga's novel was distributed in "astronomical copies as pirated print" in India. The pirated print is sold by people “in whose name it is written and who - this is what makes it explosive - do not read it as a novel. The tiger has torn itself away, literature intervenes in life. "

Works

• 2008 The White Tiger . Atlantic Books, 2008, ISBN 978-1-84354-722-8
  • The white tiger . (Novel) Translated from the English by Ingo Herzke ; CH Beck Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 3-406-57691-5 - reading sample on perlentaucher .de
• 2008 Between the Assassinations . (12 Short Stories) Picador, 2008
  • Between the attacks. Stories from a city . (Novel) Translated from the English by Klaus Modick ; CH Beck Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59270-6
• 2011 Last Man in Tower . Atlantic Books, 2011
  • Last man in the tower . (Roman) Translated from the English by Susann Urban and Ilija Trojanow . CHBeck Verlag, Munich 2011 ISBN 978-3-406-62156-7 .
• 2016 Selection day
  • Golden boy . (Roman) Translated from the English by Claudia Wenner. CHBeck Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-406-69803-3 .

Audio productions

• The White tiger. Read by Jens Wawrczeck , Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin, 2009, ISBN 978-3-89813-829-1 (reading, 5 CDs, 392 min.)
• The White tiger. Radio play based on the novel of the same name, translated from English by Ingo Herzke , adaptation and direction: Beate Andres , production: Deutschlandradio Kultur / NDR 2012, with a. a. Stefan Kaminski , Markus Meyer , Andreas Schmidt , Kathrin Angerer , Christian Grashof , Margit Bendokat , Peter Kurth
• Between the attacks. Stories from a city. Read by Heikko Deutschmann , Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin, 2009, ISBN 978-3-89813-891-8 (reading, 6 CDs, 395 min.)
• Last man in the tower. Read by Sebastian Kowski , Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin, 2011, ISBN 978-3-862-31132-3 (reading, 6 CDs, 511 min.)

interview

• Definitely not to Germany . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , November 14, 2008
• Better for free at Einaudi than for a lot of money in Germany . FAZ.NET , November 25, 2008
• Bollywood is the last art form without irony . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , March 27, 2009

Essays

• Attacks in Bombay. The city I love has given itself away . FAZ.NET , December 1, 2008

Web links

• Literature by and about Aravind Adiga in the catalog of the German National Library
• Aravind Adiga in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Homepage
• Booker Prize for the White Tiger ( Memento from October 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), tagesschau.de
• The White Tiger wins the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Message: Indian novelist Aravind Adiga wins Booker prize. In: Express India. October 15, 2008, accessed August 5, 2014.
2. ↑ Message: First-timers seeking Booker glory. In: BBC News . September 9, 2008, accessed August 5, 2014.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Susanne Mayer: The shadow in the light . In: Die Zeit , No. 47/2008
4. ↑ Aravind Adiga receives the Booker Award . In: time online .
5. ^ The Second Circle ( Memento of May 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ At Last! Commencement For More than 8,900 Today. Columbia University Record. MAY 21, 1997
7. ↑ ^{a b} Oliver Junge: Aravind Adiga. What should a thinker in Germany do? FAZ.NET , November 24, 2008.
8. ^ Fearful symmetry ( Memento of March 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
9. ↑ Shirin Sojitrawalla: Roaring funny! In: taz , November 15, 2008.
10. ↑ Die Speculanten von Bombay in: FAZ from October 1, 2011, page 35.