Who is Arundhati Roy?
Arundhati Roy, born on 24 November 1961, is an award-winning novelist and essayist from India. Her critically acclaimed novel, God of Small Things, garnered the Booker Prize in 1997 as well as the Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize in 2002. She has parlayed her success into a million dollar book deal and was included in People Magazine’s “50 Most Beautiful People in the World” in 1998. Arundhati Roy was born to a Syrian Christian mother in Meghalaya and spent her childhood in Kerala, a place that takes center stage in her one and only published work of fiction to date. She left Kerala at age 16 and embraced a bohemian lifestyle in New Delhi, even selling empty beer bottles to make a living. She eventually attended New Delhi’s School of Planning and Architecture. It was during this time that she met her first husband, architect Gerard DaCunha. In 1984, she married filmmaker Pradip Krishen. Arundhati Roy’s mother, Mary Roy, is most famous for decrying an archaic law that denied Christian wome
