Arundhati Roy Writer

Suzanna Arundhati Roy (born 24 November 1961) is an Indian author and political activist who is best known for the 1998 Man Booker Prize for Fiction-winning novel The God of Small Things (1997) and for her involvement in human rights and environmental causes. Roy's novel became the biggest-selling book by a nonexpatriate Indian author.

Personal facts

Arundhati Roy
Alias (AKA)Roy Suzanna Arundhati
Birth dateNovember 24, 1961
Birth nameSuzanna Arundhati Roy
Birth place
India , Meghalaya , Shillong , Undivided Assam
Nationality
India

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Writer

Career start1997
notable work
The God of Small Things

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External resources

  1. http://books.google.com/books/about/Public_Power_in_the_Age_of_Empire.html?id=FyTvj9PyQrMC
  2. http://inthesetimes.com/article/1740
  3. http://inthesetimes.com/article/590/seize_the_time
  4. http://preview.sarai.net/journal/04_pdf/02arundhati.pdf
  5. http://sincronia.cucsh.udg.mx/carreirasummer08.htm
  6. http://truth-out.org/news/item/23013-arundhati-roy-is-india-on-a-totalitarian-path
  7. http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/faultlines/2010/05/20105610311806602.html
  8. http://www.asiantribune.com/index.php?q=node/937
  9. http://www.caravanmagazine.in/reportage/doctor-and-saint
  10. http://www.chitram.org/mallu/ar.htm