Arundhati Roy
24 November 1961 – present
Arundhati Roy is an Indian writer and political essayist. Her first novel, The God of Small Things, won the Booker Prize in 1997 and became an international bestseller. Alongside her fiction she has written extensively on Indian politics, large dam projects, nuclear weapons and civil liberties, and published a second novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, in 2017.
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Life events
Arundhati Roy was born to a Malayali Syrian Christian mother and a Bengali father, and grew up in Kerala.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe trained at the School of Planning and Architecture in New Delhi.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe married the filmmaker and naturalist Pradip Krishen and worked with him on screenplays and television.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe television film, drawn on her architecture-school years, was directed by Pradip Krishen.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHer debut novel, set in Kerala, was published to international attention.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe God of Small Things received the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe wrote and campaigned against the Narmada Valley dam projects and the displacement they caused.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe received the prize for her work on social justice and non-violence.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHer second novel appeared twenty years after her first.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgEnglish PEN named her the recipient of its annual prize for writing in 2024.
Source: en.wikipedia.org