Arundhati Roy

Suzanna Arundhati Roy  is an Indian author and political activist. She was born in Shillong, Meghalaya, India (24 November 1961). She spent her childhood in Aymanam in Kerala, and went to school at Corpus Christi, Kottayam, followed by the Lawrence School, Lovedale, in Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu. She then studied architecture at the School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi. She played a village girl in his award-winning movie Massey Sahib.
    Her first novel The God of Small Things (1996). It received the  Man Booker Prize in 1997.

Born:               24 November 1961 Shillong,  India
Occupation:     Novelist, essayist, activist
Nationality:      Indian

Books

•     The God of Small Things.  1997 
•     The End of Imagination.  1998
•     The Cost of Living. 1999
•     The Greater Common Good. 1999
•     The Algebra of Infinite Justice. 2002 
•      Foreword to Noam Chomsky,  2003
•      War Talk. 2003  
•     An Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire 2004
•     Public Power in the Age of Empire Seven Stories Press, 2004
•     The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy. Interviews by David Barsamian 2004
•     The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy. Interviews by David Barsamian 2004
•     Introduction to 13 December, a Reader: The Strange Case of the Attack on the Indian Parliament 2006
•     The Shape of the Beast: Conversations with Arundhati Roy 2008
•     Listening to Grasshoppers: Field Notes on Democracy. 2009
  
  

Awards

•  The God of Small Things : Man Booker Prize 1997
•  National Film Award for Best Screenplay in 1989, for the screenplay of In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones.
• Sydney Peace Prize in May 2004 for her work in social campaigns and her advocacy of non-violence
• Sahitya Akademi Award 2006, a national award from India's Academy of Letters for her collection of essays on contemporary issues "The Algebra of Infinite Justice", but she declined to accept it.
• November 2011, she was awarded the Norman Mailer Prize for Distinguished Writing