Arundhati Roy

Author of The God of Small Things

Includes the names: Arundati Roy, Arndhati Roy, Arundati Roj, Arundati Roy, Arundhati Roy, Arundhaty Roy, Arundathi Roy, Roy Arundhati, Arundathi Roy, Aruhdhati Roy ... (see complete list), Арундати Рой, Schriftstellerin Arundhati Roy, Drehbuchautorin,

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Suzanna Arundhati Roy, 1961 - Suzanna Roy was born November 24, 1961. Her parents divorced and she lived with her mother Mary Roy, a social activist, in Aymanam. Her mother ran an informal school named Corpus Christi and it was there Roy developed her intellectual abilities, free from the rules of formal education. At the age of 16, she left home and lived on her own in a squatter's colony in Delhi. She went six years without seeing her mother. She attended Delhi School of Architecture where she met and married fellow student Gerard Da Cunha. Neither had a great interest in architecture so they quit school and went to Goa. They stayed there for seven months and returned broke. Their marriage lasted only four years. Roy had taken a job at the National Institute of Urban Affairs and, while cycling down a road; film director Pradeep Krishen offered her a small role as a tribal bimbo in Massey Saab. She then received a scholarship to study the restoration of monuments in Italy. During her eight months in Italy, she realized she was a writer. Now married to Krishen, they planned a 26-episode television epic called Banyan Tree. They didn't shoot enough footage for more than four episodes so the serial was scrapped. She wrote the screenplay for the film In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones and Electric Moon. Her next piece caused controversy. It was an article that criticized Shekar Kapur's film Bandit Queen, which was about Phoolan Devi. She accused Kapur of misrepresenting Devi and it eventually became a court case. Afterwards, finished with film, she concentrated on her writing, which became the novel "A God of Small Things." It is based on what it was like growing up in Kerala. The novel contains mild eroticism and again, controversy found Roy having a public interest petition filed to remove the last chapter because of the description of a sexual act. It took Roy five years to write "A God of Small Things" and was released April 4, 1997 in Delhi. It received the Booker prize in London in 1997 and has topped the best-seller lists around the world. Roy is the first non-expatriate Indian author and the first Indian woman to win the Booker prize. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from The God of Small Things… (more)

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The God of Small Things 18,842 copies, 349 reviews

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness 1,803 copies, 48 reviews

An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire 602 copies, 5 reviews

The Cost of Living 380 copies, 6 reviews

Power Politics 356 copies, 1 review

Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers 325 copies, 6 reviews

The Algebra of Infinite Justice 323 copies, 4 reviews

War Talk 292 copies, 3 reviews

Capitalism: A Ghost Story 288 copies, 5 reviews

Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction. 162 copies, 3 reviews

Walking with the Comrades 150 copies, 5 reviews

The End of Imagination 134 copies, 2 reviews

The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy 123 copies, 3 reviews

Things that Can and Cannot Be Said: Essays and Conversations (Author) 122 copies, 5 reviews

My Seditious Heart: Collected Nonfiction 89 copies, 1 review

Broken Republic: Three Essays 88 copies, 4 reviews

Public Power in the Age of Empire 83 copies, 1 review

The Doctor and the Saint: Caste, Race, and Annihilation of Caste 67 copies, 3 reviews

Kashmir: The Case for Freedom 53 copies, 1 review

The Shape of the Beast 50 copies

The Greater Common Good 30 copies, 1 review

War Is Peace 20 copies

Come September 17 copies, 1 review

13 DEC, A Reader: The Strange Case of the Attack on the Indian Parliament 17 copies

The Hanging of Afzal Guru and the Strange Case of the Attack on the Indian… 15 copies

In Which Annie Gives it Those Ones: The Original Screenplay 11 copies, 1 review

Instant-Mix Imperial Democracy and Come September: Two Talks by Arundhati… 7 copies, 1 review

Coração Rebelde (Portuguese Edition) 3 copies

Au-devant des périls: La marche en avant de la nation hindoue (Tracts)… 3 copies

Edward Snowden meets Arundhati Roy and John Cusack 2 copies

Mamuli Chijon Ka Devta 2 copies

We. 2 copies, 1 review

La speranza, nel frattempo. Una conversazione tra Arundhat Roy, John… 2 copies

Ben Laden secret de famille de l'Amérique 2 copies

Pelo bem comum 2 copies

Til alle murmeldyr og markmus her i verden- : essay 2 copies

Shahidul Alam: The Tide Will Turn 1 copy

Sonsuz adaletin muhasebesi 1 copy

Cena življenja 1 copy

Nav Samraj 1 copy

Capitalisme : une histoire de fantômes 1 copy

Bahujan Hitay 1 copy

Annihilation of Caste 1 copy

La dÃ©mocratie : notes de campagne (French Edition) (Author) 1 copy

Peace and the new corporate liberation theology 1 copy

Globalization and Terrorism 1 copy

Ekathipathia Jananayagam 1 copy

Abhilash Talkies 1 copy

The pandemic is a portal 1 copy

Red Star Over India, When the Damned of this Earth Rise Up: Impressions,… 1 copy

Arundhati Roy's Box Set (5 vols) 1 copy

bahujan Hitay? othya dharananchi samajik kinmat 1 copy

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Granta 57: India! The Golden Jubilee (Contributor) 192 copies

How to Stop the Next War Now: Effective Responses to Violence and… (Introduction) 103 copies, 3 reviews

War With No End (Contributor) 34 copies

Democracy in Print: The best of the Progressive Magazine, 1909-2009 (Contributor) 12 copies

Inspired Lives: The Best of Real Life Yoga from Ascent Magazine (Contributor, some editions) 9 copies

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