Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy is the author of The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1997, and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, which has been translated into more than forty languages and was longlisted for the Booker Prize. Roy has also published several works of nonfiction, including Azadi, The Algebra of Infinite Justice, Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers, and Broken Republic. In 2023, she was awarded the prestigious European Essay Prize for lifetime achievement, and in 2024, the PEN Pinter Prize for telling “urgent stories of injustice with wit and beauty.” She lives in Delhi.