Aravind Adiga was born in 1974 in Madras (now Chennai) and grew up in Mangalore in the south of India. He was educated at Columbia University in New York and Magdalen College, Oxford. His articles have appeared in publications including The New Yorker, The Sunday Times, the Financial Times, and The Times of India. His first novel, The White Tiger, won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2008. His second novel, Last Man in Tower, was published in 2011.

Praise for Aravind Adiga:

'Adiga is a real writer - that is to say, someone who forges an original voice and vision.' - The Sunday Times

'Beautifully done . . . As honest a book as it is entertaining: funny and engaging' - John Burnside, The Times (Last Man in Tower)

'Adiga achieves in a dozen pages what many novels fail to do in hundreds: convincingly render individual desire, disappointment and survival . . . Between the Assassinations commands attention from beginning to end.' - San Francisco Chronicle

'Blazingly savage and brilliant . . . Not a single detail in this novel rings false or feels confected' Neel Mukherjee, Sunday Telegraph (The White Tiger)