Arundhati Roy
Indian novelist Suzanna Arundhati Roy is most known for her 1997 book The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize for Fiction and became the greatest-selling book by an Indian author who is not an expat. She is a political activist who supports environmental and human rights concerns.
She penned the screenplays for Electric Moon (1992) and In Which Annie Gives it Those Ones (1989), a film based on her experiences as an architectural student in which she also made an appearance. Throughout their marriage, her husband, Pradip Krishen, served as the director for both. Roy's 1988 screenplay for In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones received the National Film Award for Best Screenplay.
Arundhati Roy contributed to the 2009 book We Are One: A Celebration of Tribal Peoples, which examines the cultures of people all around the world while highlighting both their uniqueness and the dangers to their survival. The organization for indigenous rights called Survival International receives revenues from the sale of this book.
She's penned a lot of pieces about modern politics and society. They were compiled in a five-volume series by Penguin India in 2014. Her nonfiction was compiled in a single volume called My Seditious Heart, which Haymarket Books released in 2019.
Born: 1961
Topics aimed at: Contemporary politics and culture
