Author

Arundhati Roy

Booker Prize winner for The God of Small Things

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Arundhati Roy is the author of a number of books, including The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1997 and has been translated into more than forty languages. She was born in 1959 in Shillong, India, and studied architecture in Delhi, where she now lives. She has also written several non-fiction books, including Field Notes on Democracy, Walking with the Comrades, Capitalism: A Ghost Story, The End of Imagination, and most recently Things That Can and Cannot Be Said, co-authored with John Cusack. Roy is the recipient of the 2002 Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Prize, the 2011 Norman Mailer Prize for Distinguished Writing, and the 2015 Ambedkar Sudar award.

Born1961 · Shillong, India

Notable works The God of Small ThingsThe Ministry of Utmost HappinessAzadi

HonoursBooker Prize (1997) · Sydney Peace Prize (2004)

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.— Confronting Empire (2003 speech, collected in War Talk)