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Arundhati Roy

South Asian Literature

Suzanna Arundhati Roy is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things of 1997, which won the Booker Prize that year and became the biggest-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author. She is also a political activist involved in human rights and environmental causes, and her essays are read as widely as her fiction. Her nonfiction and activism address human rights and environmental causes. She won the 2024 PEN Pinter Prize, given by English PEN.

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    is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things (1997), which won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the biggest-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author
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    born 24 November 1961
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