Arundhati Roy
24 November 1961
54 works in the book catalog catalog
Biography
Suzanna Arundhati Roy (born 24 November 1961) 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.
Also published as: Roy Arundhati, Suzanna Arundhati Roy
Most-read books
The God of Small Things
3.8 · 1997 · 1.3K want to read
Annihilation of caste
4.9 · 1937 · 133 want to read
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
3.9 · 2017 · 80 want to read
The cost of living
5 · 1999 · 44 want to read
Azadi
5 · 2020 · 40 want to read
Mother Mary Comes to Me
4 · 2025 · 40 want to read
The Vintage Book of Indian Writing 1947-1997
4 · 1997 · 30 want to read
Capitalism
3.5 · 2014 · 26 want to read
Algebra of Infinite Justice
4 · 2001 · 23 want to read
Field Notes on Democracy
5 · 2009 · 21 want to read
Power Politics
2001 · 20 want to read
My Seditious Heart
4 · 2019 · 16 want to read
Things that can and cannot be said
3 · 2016 · 15 want to read
An ordinary person's guide to empire
2004 · 15 want to read
Walking with the comrades
3 · 2011 · 12 want to read
The End of Imagination
5 · 1998 · 14 want to read
An atlas of impossible longing
4 · 2008 · 12 want to read
The doctor and the saint
5 · 2017 · 11 want to read
Broken republic
2011 · 12 want to read
India
1997 · 8 want to read
The shape of the beast
2008 · 6 want to read
Public power in the age of empire
2004 · 6 want to read
War talk
2003 · 6 want to read
13 December, a Reader
4 · 2006 · 2 want to read