Suzanna

Arundhati
Roy
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• 24 Nov,1961(age 52)Shillong, Assam (present-day
Meghalaya), India
• Rajib Roy, a Bengali Hindu tea plantation manager from
Calcutta and Mary Roy, a Malayali Syrian Christian
women's rights activist from Kerala
• uncle--George Issac (owned the Palat Pickles--the slogan:
“Emperor in the realm of taste
• Roy attended school at Corpus Christi, Kottayam, followed
by the Lawrence School, Tamil Nadu.
• She earned her degree from the School of Planning and
Architecture in Delhi.
• Her first husband was Gerard Da Cunha, whom she met
while in college. Their marriage lasted approximately four
years.
• Roy wrote and starred in the film In Which Annie Gives It
Those Ones(2004), and she wrote the script for Electric
Moon, directed by her second husband Pradip Krishen.
• The success of her first novel The God of Small Things,
published in 1997.
• She has published many works of nonfiction including
several essays as well as The End Of Imagination(1998),The
Greater Common Good(1999),The Cost Of
Living(1999),Power Politics(2002),War Talk(2003),And
Ordinary Person’s Guide To Empire(2004).
• In January 2006 she was awarded the Sahitya Akademi
award for her collection of essays, The Algebra Of Infinite
Justice, but she declined to accept it.
 The God of Small Things
• Completed in May 1996
• published in 4/4/1997 by Random
House
• the Booker Price--Oct. 1997 (India’s
50th anniversary of
independence)--the first non-
expatriate Indian author and the
first Indian woman to win the price