Arundhati Roy
Novelist, Author
1961 –
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Who is Arundhati Roy?
Suzanna Arundhati Roy is an Indian author and political activist who is best known for the 1998 Man Booker Prize for Fiction-winning novel The God of Small Things and for her involvement in human rights and environmental causes. Roy's novel became the biggest-selling book by a nonexpatriate Indian author. Roy is known for her secular, anti-caste and anti-Hindutva views, and recently for her trenchant criticism of Mohandas Gandhi for favouring the varna system.
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- Born
- Nov 24, 1961
Shillong - Also known as
- arundhati_roy
- Arundhati
- Suzanna Arundhati Roy
- Parents
- Spouses
- Religion
- Hinduism
- Nationality
- India
- Profession
- Education
- School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi
- Lived in
- Meghalaya
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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