Sunday, November 4, 2012

Arundhati Roy




Arundhati Roy

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born
November 24, 1961 in Shillong, Meghalaya, India

gender
female

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About this author

Arundhati Roy is an Indian writer who writes in English and an activist who focuses on issues related to social justice and economic inequality. She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her novel, The God of Small Things, and has also written two screenplays and several collections of essays.

For her work as an activist she received the Cultural Freedom Prize awarded by the Lannan Foundation in 2002.

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