Arundhati Roy Biography - Birth date, Achievements, Career, Family, Awards

Arundhati Roy was born on 24 November 1961 in Shillong, Assam (present-day Meghalaya). His full name is Sujana Arundhati Roy. His father's name was Ranjit Rai and his mother's name was Mary Rai. Her father Rajiv Roy was the manager of tea plantation in Shillong and her mother was Christian, a women's rights activist from Kerala.

Arundhati Roy attended school at Corpus Christi, Kottayam, followed by Lawrence School, Laudrell, in Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu. He then studied architecture at the School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi, where he met the architect Gerard da Cunha. The two lived together in Delhi and then Goa before separating.

At the beginning of her career, Arundhati worked in television and films. She wrote the screenplay for In Any Gives It the Wes (1989), a film based on her experiences as a student of architecture, in which she also appeared as an artist and Electric Moon (1992). Both were directed by her husband Pradeep Krishnan during their marriage. He gained attention in 1994 when he criticized Shekhar Kapur's film Bandit Queen, which was based on Phoolan Devi's life. In a review of her film titled "" The Great Indian Rape Trick "", she questioned "" the right to stop the rape of a living woman without her permission "" and accused Kapoor of exploiting the goddess and her life and its meaning Accused of misrepresenting both. Roy began writing his first novel, The God of Small Things, in 1992, completing it in 1996. The publication of The God of Small Things brought Roy to international fame.

It received the Booker Prize for fiction fiction in 1997 and was listed as one of The New York Times' notable books. It reached the fourth position on The New York Times Bestseller's list for Independent Fiction. From the beginning, the book was also a commercial success: Roy received half a million pounds as an advance. And the book was sold in 18 countries by the end of June. Since the success of his novel, Roy has written a television serial, The Baran Tree, and the documentary A Film with Arundhati Roy (2002). He contributed to We Are One: A Celebration of Tribal People, a book released in 2009 that explores the culture of people around the world, portraying their diversity and threats to their existence. The royalties from the sale of this book go to the indigenous rights organization Survival International. In October 2016, Penguin India and Hamish Hamilton UK announced that they would publish their second novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, in June 2017. The novel was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017 Long List. In January 2018, the Ministry of Last Happiness was nominated as a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction.