Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy
Author • Editorb. 1961-11-24 · From India- Books
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Arundhati Roy is an Indian author and political activist, born in Shillong, India. She won the 1997 Booker Prize for her debut novel, The God of Small Things, and later published the novel The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017) and the memoir Mother Mary Comes to Me (2025).
Alongside her fiction, she has written extensively on human rights, environmental and political issues — including The Cost of Living, Field Notes on Democracy and Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction. — and is a prominent activist on causes such as the Narmada dam project and Kashmir's political status.
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Arundhati Roy is widely recognized for her debut novel, The God of Small Things, which earned her the Booker Prize. Beyond her fiction, she is also known for her extensive non-fiction writing and activism on political and social issues.
Arundhati Roy's novels, The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, are standalone works. Her non-fiction often consists of essays and collections that can be read independently.
Arundhati Roy won the prestigious Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 for her novel, The God of Small Things. She has also received other accolades for her literary and activist work.
For readers interested in her fiction, The God of Small Things is an excellent starting point as it is her most celebrated novel. If you prefer non-fiction, her essay collections offer insightful perspectives on contemporary issues.
Yes. Arundhati Roy was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize in 2004, recognizing her advocacy for human rights and non-violence, including her opposition to the Narmada dam projects and to nuclear weapons. In 2024 she received the PEN Pinter Prize from English PEN, sharing the award with the imprisoned British-Egyptian writer Alaa Abd el-Fattah, whom she named as the "Writer of Courage."