Arundhati Roy
3 standalone books
1 award & honors
Suzanna Arundhati Roy, born on 24 November 1961, is an Indian author and political activist. She is best known for her novel The God of Small Things (1997), which won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the biggest-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author. Roy is also recognized for her involvement in human rights and environmental causes. She was the winner of the 2024 PEN Pinter Prize, awarded by English PEN. She named imprisoned British-Egyptian writer and activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah as the "Writer of Courage," with whom she shared the award. Roy is an Indian novelist, essayist, and activist.
- Born
- 1961
Books by Arundhati Roy
Awards & honors
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
- National Book Critics Circle Awards
Honors as recorded by the publisher for Arundhati Roy’s books. Wording is the awarding body’s own — a nomination is listed as a nomination, never as a win.
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