Arundhati Roy

b. 1961

2 standalone books

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