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Suzanna Arundhati Roy (born 24 November 1961) is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things (1997), which won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the best-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author.
Jun 18, 2024 · Last week, 14 years after the original complaint, Delhi's most senior official granted permission for the Booker Prize-winning author Arundhati Roy to be prosecuted under India’s stringent anti...
4 days ago · Arundhati Roy is an Indian author and activist known for the novel The God of Small Things and for her work in environmental and human rights issues, the latter of which resulted in various legal problems for her. Her other notable books include The Ministry of Utmost Happiness.
Jul 13, 2024 · How Arundhati Roy changed my life, and why I can no longer be silent. I WAS 10 YEARS OLD when Arundhati Roy won the Booker Prize for The God of Small Things. It had a special significance for me because I studied in the school founded by her mother, and where she herself had studied. In a way, I felt like I had a claim over her.
Arundhati Roy was born in 1960 in Kerala, India. She studied architecture at the Delhi School of Architecture and worked as a production designer. She has written two screenplays, including Electric Moon (1992), commissioned by Channel 4 television.
Feb 9, 2013 · Arundhati Roy is an Indian writer who is also an activist who focuses on issues related to social justice and economic inequality. She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her novel, The God of Small Things, and has also written two screenplays and several collections of essays.
Oct 12, 2023 · Booker Prize-winning Indian author Arundhati Roy could be prosecuted for allegedly seditious comments made over a decade ago, after a top official in Delhi said there was enough evidence to lay...
Oct 11, 2023 · The Indian authorities have charged the renowned novelist Arundhati Roy over public comments she made 13 years ago about the restive Kashmir region, the latest step in an intensifying crackdown...
Jun 28, 2024 · The God of Small Things, novel written by Arundhati Roy, published in 1997, that vividly and poetically recounts the downfall of a family while exploring issues regarding politics, race, religion, and class. The ambitious work is Roy’s first novel, and it won the Booker Prize.
Arundhati Roy is the author of The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1997 and has been translated into more than 40 languages. She also wrote The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, which was long-listed for the Booker Prize 2017.
