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Arundhati Roy won the Booker prize for her brilliant and poetic novel "The God of Small Things" in the year 1997 making her the first Indian & woman to receive the prestigious award.
Kiran Desai followed her with " The Inheritance of Loss" in 2006.
Aravinda Adiga received the Booker prize for "The White Tiger" in 2008 and became the first Indian male to receive the prize.
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