Arundhati
Roy
was born on 24
November 1961
in Shillong Meghalaya. She is best
known for her novel The God of Small Things (1997).
She wrote for movies and television shows. She wrote the
screenplays for In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones (1989), a movie
based on her experiences as a student of architecture, in which she
also appeared as a performer, and Electric Moon (1992).
Roy began writing her first novel, The God of Small Things, in
1992, completing it in 1996. The book is semi-autobiographical and a
major part captures her childhood experiences in Aymanam, in Kottayam
district, Kerala. The publication of The God of Small Things
catapulted Roy to international fame. It received the 1997 Booker
Prize for Fiction and was listed as one of The New York Times Notable
Books of the Year. It reached fourth position on The New York Times
Bestsellers list for Independent Fiction. The book recieved good
reviews from major global media such as New York Times, Lose Ageles
Times, Toronto Star, Time, The Guardian, etc. She published her
second novel The Ministry of Utmost Happiness after twenty years of
her debut. She wrote many non fiction books dealing diverse content.
Aundhathy Roy recieved many price for her literary life. Roy won the
National Film Award for Best Screenplay in 1989, for the screenplay
of In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones. Her debut novel itself
recieved the Man Booker Prize for
Fiction in 1997. In 2002, she won the Lannan Foundation's
Cultural Freedom Award for her work "about civil societies that
are adversely affected by the world's most powerful governments and
corporations". In
2003, she was awarded "special recognition" as a Woman of
Peace at the Global Exchange Human Rights Awards in San Francisco.Roy
was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize in May 2004 for her work in social
campaigns and her advocacy of non-violence.
In January 2006, she was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award. In
November 2011, she was awarded the Norman Mailer Prize for
Distinguished Writing. Roy was featured in the 2014 list of Time 100,
the 100 most influential people in the world.
Books by Arundhathy Roy
- The God of Small Things (1997)
- The End of Imagination. Kottayam (1998)
- The Cost of Living (1999)
- The Greater Common Good (1999)
- The Algebra of Infinite Justice (2002)
- Power Politics (2002)
- War Talk (2003)
- An Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire (2004)
- Public Power in the Age of Empire (2004)
- The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy (2004)
- The Shape of the Beast: Conversations with Arundhati Roy.(2008)
- Listening to Grasshoppers: Field Notes on Democracy (2010)
- Broken Republic: Three Essays (2011)
- Walking with the Comrades (2011)
- Kashmir: The Case for Freedom (2011)
- The Hanging of Afzal Guru and the Strange Case of the Attack on the Indian Parliament (2013)
- Capitalism: A Ghost Story (2014)
- Things that Can and Cannot Be Said: Essays and Conversations (2016)
- The Doctor and the Saint: Caste, Race, and Annihilation of Caste, the Debate Between B.R. Ambedkar and M.K. Gandhi.(2017)
- The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017)
