About Arundhati Roy
Suzanna Arundhati Roy is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things (1997), which won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the biggest-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author. She is also a political activist involved in human rights and environmental causes. She was the winner of the 2024 PEN Pinter Prize, given by English PEN, and she named imprisoned British-Egyptian writer and activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah as the "Writer of Courage" with whom she chose to share the award.
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Awards & Honors
Booker Prize
Time 100
Prix Européen de l'Essai Charles Veillon
National Film Award for Best Screenplay
Sydney Peace Prize
Orwell Award
Norman Mailer Prize
Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize
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Sahitya Akademi Award in English
