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The 2008 Man Booker Prize was awarded at a ceremony on 14 October 2008. The prize was awarded to Aravind Adiga for The White Tiger.

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2008 Man Booker Prize

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The 2008 Man Booker Prize was awarded at a ceremony on 14 October 2008. The prize was awarded to Aravind Adiga for The White Tiger. Michael Portillo (Chair)...

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Booker Prize

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The Booker Prize, formerly the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a prestigious literary award conferred each...

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List of winners and nominated authors of the Booker Prize

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Booker Prize 2008 | The Booker Prizes". thebookerprizes.com. Retrieved 29 May 2024. "Man Booker Prize 2009 Shortlist announced". Man Booker Prize. Archived...

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Aravind Adiga

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writer and journalist. His debut novel, The White Tiger, won the 2008 Man Booker Prize. Aravind Adiga was born in Madras (now Chennai) on 23 October 1974...

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Sebastian Barry

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for the Man Booker Prize for his novels A Long Long Way (2005) and The Secret Scripture (2008), the latter of which won the 2008 Costa Book of the Year...

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Russian Booker Prize

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The Russian Booker Prize (Russian: Русский Букер, Russian Booker) was a Russian literary award modeled after the Booker Prize. It was awarded from 1992...

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Salutatorian

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during the graduation ceremony. Aravind Adiga, author, winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize Jesse L. Brown distinguished US Naval Aviator and first African...

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Booker Group

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of Booker Group Limited. The company was founded by George and Richard Booker in 1835, when they bought their first ship and established the Booker Line...

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Man Group

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com. Retrieved 14 July 2015. "The Man Booker Prize". The Man Booker Prize. Retrieved 18 April 2011. "Booker Prizes Lose Major Sponsor". Retrieved 27 January...

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Sea of Poppies

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Sea of Poppies (2008) is a novel by Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2008. It is the first volume of the...

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Mohammed Hanif

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critically acclaimed book A Case of Exploding Mangoes, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, and won...

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Amitav Ghosh

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Ocean region. Its first instalment Sea of Poppies (2008) was shortlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize. This was followed by River of Smoke (2011) and the...

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The Best of the Booker

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Festival. Midnight's Children not only won the 1981 Booker, but also the special 1993 Booker of Bookers prize, which commemorated the award's 25th anniversary...

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International Prize for Arabic Fiction

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The International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) (Arabic: الجائزة العالمية للرواية العربية), also known as "the Arabic Booker", is regarded as the most...

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Ibis trilogy

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"DSC Prize 2013 shortlist announced". mint. Retrieved 14 October 2022. "Man Asian Literary Prize - News - Seven novels make Man Asian Literary Prize's strongest...

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Michael Portillo

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on Missing Persons. "Michael Portillo to chair 2008 Man Booker judges" (Press release). Man Booker Prize. 18 December 2007. Archived from the original...

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Kiran Desai

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2006 Man Booker Prize, as well as the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award. Desai became the youngest-ever woman to win the Booker Prize at the...

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Steve Toltz

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Homepage | Canada.Com". ocanada. "First-timers seeking Booker glory". 9 September 2008. "The Man Booker Prize Longlist". Jordan, Justine (29 May 2015). "Quicksand...

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Tom Rob Smith

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Writers' Association, named on the long list for the 2008 Man Booker Prize, and nominated for the 2008 Costa First Novel Award (former Whitbread). In July...

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1974 in India

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film director. 23 October – Aravind Adiga, journalist and author, 2008 Man Booker Prize winner. 1 November – V. V. S. Laxman, cricketer. 9 November – Manav...

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A Case of Exploding Mangoes

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book award". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 23 April 2010. Prize Archive 2008, [4] Archived 2011-11-21 at the Wayback Machine, The Man Booker Prize website...

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Alastair Niven

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for the Booker Prize in 1994, and for the Man Booker Prize in 2014. In 2017, Niven argued that allowing American authors to contend for the Booker award...

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Olga Tokarczuk

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life.” For her novel Flights, Tokarczuk was awarded the 2018 Man Booker International Prize. Her works include Primeval and Other Times, Drive Your Plow...

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Michelle de Kretser

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the long list for the 2008 Man Booker Prize for fiction. From 1989 to 1992 she was a founding editor of the Australian Women's Book Review. Her fourth novel...

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Anne Enright

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The first Laureate for Irish Fiction (2015–2018) and winner of the Man Booker Prize (2007), she has published seven novels, many short stories, and a non-fiction...

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Han Kang

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born November 27, 1970) is a South Korean writer. She won the Man Booker International Prize for fiction in 2016 for The Vegetarian, a novel about a woman's...

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Man Asian Literary Prize

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sponsor the prize after the 2012 winner was announced in 2013. Man Booker Prize Man Booker International Prize "Man Asian Literary Prize announces new...

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