Author of The God

of Small Things

The Life of Arundhati Roy

Roy was born on November 24, 1961 in Shillong, Assam, which is present-day Meghalaya, India

Occupation: Novelist, Essayist, and Activist Nationality: Indian Notable Works: The God of

Small Things
Notable Awards: Man Booker Prize (1997) and Sydney Peace Prize (2004)

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First Husband: Gerard de Cunha

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Ranjit Roy, her father, was a Bengali Hindu tea planter and Mary Roy, her mother, was a Malayali Syrian Christian womens rights activist During her childhood, she lived in Aymanam in Kerala (which is the setting in The God of Small Things) She went to school at Corpus Christi in Kottayam, and Lawrence School in Lovedale. After high school, studied architecture at the School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi. She met her first husband, Gerard de Cunha, while in college. He was an architect. She met Pradip Krishen, her second husband, in 1984 Early in her career, she worked for television and movies. She wrote screenplays and appeared as a performer for In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones in 1989 She also wrote screenplays for

Electric Moon
Before writing The God of Small Things, she had many other jobs, such as running an aerobic class at hotels in Dew Delhi

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Roy started writing The God of Small Things in 1992 and completed it in 1996 (her first novel) The novel received the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and was one of the New York Times Notable Books of the Year for 1997 Since this novel, she continued to write screenplays for The Banyan Tree and DAM/AGE: A Film with

Arundhati Roy
She is now a spokeswoman for the antiglobalization/alter-globalization movement She supports Kashmiri separation from India She is also involved in many other advocacy groups and lives in New Delhi today

Second Husband: Pradip Krishen