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Name the Indian novelist who was also in the title race of 2008 Man Booker Prize other than the winner Aravind Adiga.
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Amitav Ghosh
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Amitav Ghosh was shortlisted for the 2008 Booker Prize for "Sea of Poppies" (the first book of the Ibis Trilogy), which Aravind Adiga won for "The White Tiger". Salman Rushdie has won the Booker (1981 for "Midnight's Children") but wasn't shortlisted in 2008. Kiran Desai won in 2006.