INFO ABOUT ARUNDHATI ROY

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INDEPENDENCE ERA.
 FACTS ABOUT ARUNDATHI
ROY

Born Full name: Suzanna Arundhati Roy

24 November 1961 (age 52)
Shillong, Assam (present-day Meghalaya), India

Occupation Writer, essayist, activist

Indian
Nationality 1997–present
Period works The God of Small Things
Notable

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
She wrote the screenplays for In Which
Annie Gives It Those Ones

Roy attracted attention in

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

.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
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
 Awards shegained for her hardwork andselfless
THE AWARDS SHE GAINED FOR HER
actions
SELFLESS ACTIONS AND HARD
WORK Arundhati 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
  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
THANK YOU SO MUCH ❤