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Adiga leaves agent

27.10.08 | Philip Jones

This year's Booker winner, Aravind Adiga, has suddenly parted company with the William Morris Agency, according to the Daily Telegraph diarist Mandrake.

"I guess you can call it being 'sacked'," his former agent, [Cathryn] Summerhayes, is quoted as saying. "No reason was given why. He just sent a letter to the US office to say that we would no longer be representing him, but that we would still look after the book rights. I don't think you will find, however, any publisher who said we didn't do a great job on the book and no one had a bad word to say about us."

It is unclear why Adiga has dropped William Morris, writes Mandrake.

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