Key facts
- Born
- 24 November 1961, Shillong
- State of birth
- Shillong, Meghalaya
- Sector
- Literature & writing
- Profession
- Indian novelist, essayist, and activist
- Gender
- Female
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Biography
Suzanna Arundhati Roy 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. She is also a political activist involved in human rights and environmental causes. She was the winner of the 2024 PEN Pinter Prize, given by English PEN, and she named imprisoned British-Egyptian writer and activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah as the "Writer of Courage" with whom she chose to share the award.
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Timeline
- 1961Born in Shillong
- 1988Awarded the National Film Award for Best Screenplay
- 1997Awarded the Booker Prize
- 2002Awarded the Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize
- 2004Awarded the Sydney Peace Prize
- 2004Awarded the Orwell Award
- 2005Awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in English
- 2011Awarded the Norman Mailer Prize
- 2014Awarded the Time 100
- 2023Awarded the Prix Européen de l'Essai Charles Veillon
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