Arundhati Roy

Not to be confused with Anuradha Roy (novelist).

Arundhati Roy
Roy in 2013
Roy in 2013
BornSuzanna Arundhati Roy
(1961-11-24) 24 November 1961 (age 63)[1]
Shillong, Assam (present-day Meghalaya), India
OccupationWriter, essayist, activist
EducationLawrence School, Lovedale
Alma materSchool of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi
Period1997–present
GenreFiction, non-fiction
Notable worksThe God of Small Things
Notable awards
Spouse
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    (m. 1978; div. 1982)​
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    (m. 1984)​
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ParentsMary Roy (mother)
RelativesPrannoy Roy (cousin)[4]
Signature
Arundhati Roy's voice
from the BBC programme Bookclub, 2 October 2011.[5]

Suzanna Arundhati Roy (born 24 November 1961)[1] 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.[1] She is also a political activist involved in human rights and environmental causes.[6] She was the winner of the 2024 PEN Pinter Prize, given by English PEN,[7] and she named imprisoned British-Egyptian writer and activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah as the "Writer of Courage" with whom she chose to share the award.[8]

  1. ^ a b c "Arundhati Roy". Encyclopædia Britannica. Archived from the original on 13 June 2013. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
  2. ^ a b Pellegrino, Joe. "Arundhati Roy". jpellegrino.com.
  3. ^ a b Elmhirst, Sophie (21 July 2011). "Arundhati Roy — "Every day, one is insulted in India". New Statesman.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference toi was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ "Arundhati Roy". Bookclub. 2 October 2011. BBC Radio 4. Archived from the original on 1 December 2014. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  6. ^ Gokulan, Dhanusha (11 November 2012). "'Fairy princess' to 'instinctive critic'". Khaleej Times. Archived from the original on 3 November 2014. Retrieved 2 November 2014.
  7. ^ Mollan, Cherylann (27 June 2024). "Arundhati Roy wins PEN Pinter Prize for 'powerful voice'". Mumbai: BBC News. Archived from the original on 27 June 2024.
  8. ^ Spanoudi, Melina (10 October 2024). "Arundhati Roy shares PEN Pinter Prize 2024 with Alaa Abd El-Fattah". The Bookseller. Retrieved 12 October 2024.