Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy is an Indian author and political activist best known for her debut novel The God of Small Things (1997), which won the Booker Prize for Fiction and became the biggest-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author. Born in Shillong to a Bengali Hindu father and Keralite Syrian Christian mother, she pursued diverse paths including architecture and screenwriting before turning to fiction. Since the late 1990s, she has been actively involved in political activism, focusing on environmental and human rights issues, nuclear armament, and opposition to corporate globalization.