Arundhati Roy: Know the Author and works

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Full name- Suzanna Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy:- writer, essayist, activist

Arundhati Roy born in 24 November 1961 is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things 1997, Wich won the Man Booker prize for fiction in 1997 and became the biggest-selling book by a nonexpatriate Indian author. She is also a political activist involved in human rights and environmental causes.

Arundhati Roy was born in shillong, meghalaya to a keralite Syrian Christian mother and Bengali Hindu father. She spent her childhood in Aymanam in Kerala. She left Kerala for Delhi at age 16, and emberked on bohemian lifestyle, staying in a small hut with a tin roof and making a living selling empty beer bottles. She then proceeded to study architecture at the Delhi school of Architecture. She began writing the God of Small things in 1992 and finished it in 1996. She received half-a-million pounds in advances, and rights to the book were sold in 21 countries. The book is semiautobiographical and a major part captures her Childhood experiences in Aymanam.

Arundhati Roy 'always try to negotiate freedom. The royalties are peripheral'.

The best-selling novelist on outsiders, Power and why she never wanted to write'The God of Small Things Two'.

"The radical act is utmost happiness", says Arundhati Roy. "Utmost sadness, we all know about. But the real victory is, can you come out of that with an understanding of how to be, at Least occasionally, happy? To me that's very important, extremely so."

In 2002 she was convinced of contempt of court by the supreme Court in New Delhi for accusing the Court of attempting to silence protests against the Narmada Dam project, but received only a symbolic sentence of one day in prison.

Roy was awarded the Sydney Peace prize in May 2004, for her work in social campaigns and advocacy of non-violence.

Suzanna Arundhati Roy is the child of a Christian mother from the south Indian state of Kerala and Bengali Hindu father, who was the administrator of a tea plantation. She grew up in Aymenem, Kerala, India, where she attended an unconventional school, corpus Christi, operated by her mother ,Mary  Roy.