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Arundhati Roy
Indian author and activist (born 1961)
Not to be confused with Anuradha Roy (novelist).
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]
Early life
Arundhati Roy was born in Shillong, Meghalaya, India,[9] to Mary Roy, a MalayaliJacobite Syrian Christian women's rights activist from Kerala and Rajib Roy, a Bengali Brahmo Samaji[10] tea plantation manager from Kolkata.[11] She has d