Arundhati Roy, born Suzanna Arundhati Roy in Shillong, India, on November 24, 1961, is an Indian author, essayist, and political activist. After studying architecture and writing screenplays, she achieved international acclaim with her debut novel, The God of Small Things, published in 1997, which won the Booker Prize for Fiction. She authored non-fiction works addressing political and social issues, including The Cost of Living in 1999, Power Politics in 2002, and Public Power in the Age of Empire in 2004. In 2017, she published her second novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. Roy won the National Film Award for Best Screenplay in 1988 for In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones and received the PEN Pinter Prize in 2024.
