FACTS ABOUT ARUNDATHI ROY

Born Full name: Suzanna Arundhati Roy24 November 1961 (age 52)Shillong, Assam (present-day Meghalaya), India

Occupation Writer, essayist, activist

Nationality Indian

Period 1997–present

Notable works The God of Small Things

Notable awards Man Booker Prize (1997)Sydney Peace Prize (2004)

born in Shillong, Meghalaya (INDIA)

When she was two, her parents divorced and she

returned with her mother ,and brother to Kerala

school - Corpus Christi, Kottayam, followed by the

Lawrence School, Lovedale in Nilgiris, Tamil

Nadu.

She then studied architecture at the School of

Planning and Architecture, Delhi

ABOUT ARUNDHATI’S CAREER

Early career: screenplays

Roy attracted attention in 1994, when she criticised Shekhar Kapur's film Bandit Queen, based on the life of Phoolan Devi

She wrote the screenplays for In Which Annie

Gives It Those Ones

LITERARY CAREER

The God of Small Things ( 1992)

Captures her childhood experiences in Aymanam

Received the 1997 Booker Prize for Fiction

Listed as one of the New York Times Notable Books of the Year for 1997

4TH position on the New York Times Bestsellers list

.3 Sardar Sarovar Project

4. Support for Kashmiri separatism

5.Criticism she raised for Israel

6. The questions she raised for - 2001 Indian Parliament

attack

1. Roy has devoted herself mainly to nonfictional writings and

political activism,, as well as working for social causes

2. spokesperson of the anti-globalization/alter-globalization

movement and a vehement critic of neo-imperialism and of the

global policies of the United States7

7. The Muthanga incident

8. India's nuclear weaponisation

9. Comments she made on -- 2008

Mumbai attack

10.Criticism of Sri Lankan government

11. Views on the Naxalites

12. Sedition charges

13. Criticism of Anna Hazare

14. Views on Narendra Modi

THE AWARDS SHE GAINED FOR HER

SELFLESS ACTIONS AND HARD WORKArundhati Roy was awarded

the Booker Prize for her novel

The God of Small things

she won the National Film

Award for Best Screenplay in

1989

In 2002, she won the

Lannan Foundation's Cultural

Freedom Award

Awards she gained for her hardwork and selfless actions

In 2003, she was awarded 'special

recognition' as a Woman of Peace

at the Global Exchange Human

Rights Awards

Roy was awarded the Sydney

peace prize

In January 2006, she was

awarded the Sahitya Akademy

Award, a national award from

India's Academy of Letters,, The

Algebra of Infinite Justice,

In November 2011, she was

awarded the Norman Mailer Prize

for Distinguished Writing

Roy was featured in the 2014 list of

Time 100.