Aravind Adiga, whose novel The White Tiger won this year’s Booker Prize, has signed a new contract with Free Press, his U.S. publisher.
Free Press will put out a collection of Mr. Adiga’s short stories in June 2009; according to an announcement in the Publishers Marketplace deal-wire, the stories will be "interconnected" (like Keith Read More
Earlier this week we carried a report from the U.K. press that said Aravind Adiga, author of White Tiger and recent winner of the Man Booker Prize, had abruptly abandoned his relationship with the William Morris Agency. The implication was that the boy had gotten too big for his britches, what with his Read More
Guardian gossip Tim Walker reported over the weekend that Aravind Adiga, whose debut novel The White Tiger won the Man Booker Prize earlier this month, has abruptly parted ways with the literary agent who got him his £50,000 book deal. Cathryn Summerhayes, of William Morris’s UK office, told The Guardian that she Read More
Michael Cader, the man who maintains the subscription-only industry news portal Publishers Marketplace, continues to be vexed by the Man Booker Prize. The committee’s insistence on putting forth a "longlist" of 13 titles one month before announcing the actual nominees, and then invariably snubbing the favorite, has infuriated Mr. Cader for years.
The 2008 Read More
