Arundhati Roy is a popular Indian writer, activist. She was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2006. She was awarded the 1997 Booker Prize for her novel The God of Small Things. She was born in Shilong, Meghalaya, India. She is an activist involved in human rights and environmental causes.
Arundhati Roy : Books, Works
Fiction
- The God of Small Things (1997)
- The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017)
Non-fiction
- The End of Imagination (1998)
- The Greater Common Good (1999)
- The Cost of Living (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 (with John Cusack) (2016)
- The Doctor and the Saint : Caste, Race, and the Annhilation of Caste (the Debate Between B.R. Ambedkar and M.K. Gandhi) (2017)
- My Seditious Heart : Collected Non-Fiction (2019)
- Azadi : Freedom, Fascism, Fiction (2020)
Arundhati Roy : Awards
- Booker Prize in 1997 for her first novel The God of Small Things
- Sahitya Akademi Award in 2006
- National Film Award for Best Screenplay in 1989 for the screenplay of “In Which Annie Gives it Those Ones”
- Sydney Peace Prize in 2004
- Norman Mailer Prize in 2011
Arundhati Roy : Quotes
- “Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”
- “Democracy no longer means what it was meant to”
- “Everyone thinks I live alone, but I don’t”
- “If we were to lose the ability to be emotional, if we were to lose the ability to be angry, to be outraged, we would be the robots”
- “If you’re happy in a dream, does that count”
- “Change is one thing, acceptance is another”
- “Some things come with their own punishments.”
- “It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and impossible really happened.”
- “Enemies can’t break your spirit, only friends can.”
FAQs
Who was the first Indian to win the Booker Prize?
Arundhati Roy is the first Indian to win the Booker Prize. She won the Booker Prize for her novel The God of Small Things in 1997.
Who has recently been awarded the 2023 European Essay Award for Lifetime Achievement ?
Arundhati Roy is awarded the 45th European Essay Prize for lifetime achievement on the occasion of the French translation of her latest essay Azadi – Liberté, fascisme, fiction (Paris: Gallimard, 2021).
Which is Arundhati Roy’s first novel?
The God of Small Things (1997) is Arundhati Roy’s first Novel.
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