Author
Arundhati Roy
Birth Date
November 24, 1961
(64 Years)
Associated Country
India
Arundhati Roy is an Indian novelist, essayist, and activist, best known for her debut novel, The God of Small Things, which won the prestigious Booker Prize in 1997. Born in Shillong in 1961, she grew up in a politically engaged family, which greatly influenced her writing and activism.
Her literary career took off with The God of Small Things, a deeply layered, semi-autobiographical narrative that explores the complexities of family, caste, and history in post-colonial India. In addition to her novels, Roy has written numerous essays on a wide range of topics, including global politics, human rights, environmental issues, and India's social justice movements.
A fierce advocate for social and environmental causes, Arundhati Roy has used her platform to speak out on issues such as the displacement of indigenous people, India's nuclear policies, and the struggles of marginalized communities. Her works are celebrated for their lyrical prose, rich cultural context, and profound socio-political insights.
Her literary career took off with The God of Small Things, a deeply layered, semi-autobiographical narrative that explores the complexities of family, caste, and history in post-colonial India. In addition to her novels, Roy has written numerous essays on a wide range of topics, including global politics, human rights, environmental issues, and India's social justice movements.
A fierce advocate for social and environmental causes, Arundhati Roy has used her platform to speak out on issues such as the displacement of indigenous people, India's nuclear policies, and the struggles of marginalized communities. Her works are celebrated for their lyrical prose, rich cultural context, and profound socio-political insights.
Books
In this, her first work of memoir, Arundhati Roy writes, “Perhaps even more than a daughter mourning the passing of her mother, I mourn her as a writer who has lost her most enthralling...
Azadi 2020
The chant of "Azadi!"—Urdu for "Freedom!"—is the slogan of the freedom struggle in Kashmir against what Kashmiris see as the Indian Occupation. Ironically, it also became the chant of millions on the...
Brings together five of Arundhati Roy's acclaimed books of essays into one comprehensive volume for the first time.
The End of Imagination brings together five of Arundhati Roy's acclaimed books of...
My Seditious Heart 2019
In constant conversation with the themes and settings of her novels, the essays form a near-unbroken memoir of Arundhati Roy’s journey as both a writer and a citizen, of both India and the world, from...
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes us on an intimate journey across the Indian subcontinent—from the cramped neighborhoods of Old Delhi and the roads of the new city to the mountains and valleys...
Arundhati Roy examines the persistent inequality in India through an extensive critique of Gandhi's views on race, caste and imperialism.
To best understand and address the inequality in India today,...
On 13 December 2001, the Indian Parliament was attacked by a few heavily armed men. Eleven years later, we still do not know who was behind the attack, nor the identity of the attackers. Both the...
With anger and compassion, Arundhati Roy's new book maps India's turbulent present and possible futures.
Combining fierce conviction, deft political analysis, and beautiful writing, this is the...
Capitalism 2014
With anger and compassion, Roy exposes the sordid underbelly and dark inhumanity of capitalism in India and around the globe.
From the poisoned rivers, barren wells, and clear-cut forests, to the...
In this fiercely reported work of nonfiction, internationally renowned author Arundhati Roy draws on her unprecedented access to a little-known rebel movement in India to pen a work full of...
Set in the lush, humid landscape of Kerala, India, The God of Small Things tells the story of fraternal twins Estha and Rahel, whose lives are forever shaped by a single, devastating event. Moving...
In her major address to the 99th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association on August 16, 2004, "Public Power in the Age of Empire," broadcast nationally on C-Span Book TV and on...