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Fig. 1 - Arundhati Roy is an Indian novelist who also has written a collection of essays.

Arundhati Roy: biography

Arundhati Roy's Biography
Birth:24th November 1961
Birthplace:Shillong, India
Father:Rajib Roy
Mother:Mary Roy
Spouse/Partners:Gerard da Cunha (1977-1981),Pradip Krishen (1984-Present)
Known Works:
Nationality:Indian
Literary Period:Postmodernism

Born in 1961 in Meghalaya to a Hindu father and a Christian mother, Roy grew up in Kerala. Her father was a tea planter and her mother successfully challenged India’s inheritance laws by suing for the right of Christian women to receive an equal share of their father’s estates. Her parents divorced when she was two, largely due to her father’s alcoholism.

Although she completed an architectural degree in Delhi, she never practised as an architect, choosing to focus on writing. Her cited influences include Shakespeare (1564-1616), Tolstoy (1847-1910), Berger (1926-2017), and Galeano (1940-2015). John Lennon is her favourite Beatle.

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Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy
on Aug 02, 2021
Arundhati Roy was born in 1960 in Kerala, India. She studied architecture at the Delhi School of Architecture and worked as a production designer. She has written two screenplays, including Electric Moon(1992), commissioned by Channel 4 television. She lives in Delhi with her husband, the filmmaker Pradip Krishen. The God of Small Things, her first novel, won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and has sold over six million copies worldwide. An immediate bestseller, the novel was published simultaneously in 16 languages and 19 countries, but caused controversy in India for the description of a love affair between a Syrian Christian and a Hindu 'untouchable'. Set in Ayemenem in Kerala, a rural province in southern India, it is the story of two twins, Estha and Rahel, their reunion after 23 years apart and their shared memories of the events surrounding the accidental death of their English cousin, Sophie Mol, in 1969. She is also the author of several non-fiction books, including The Cost of Living(1999), a highly critical att
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Arundhati Roy was born in 1961 in the Northeastern Indian region of Bengal, to a Christian mother and Hindu father. She spent her childhood in Aymanam in Kerala, which serves as the setting for her first novel, The God of Small Things (under the name "Ayemenem"). Roy's mother, Mary Roy, homeschooled her until the age of ten, when she began attending regular classes. She has been reluctant to discuss her father publicly, having spent very little time with him during her lifetime; Roy instead focuses on her mother's influence in her life. Mary Roy, a political activist, won an unprecedented victory for women's rights in Kerala. Through her persistence, the Supreme Court granted Christian women in Kerala the right to have an inheritance.

She spent her teenage years at boarding school in Southern India, after which she earned her degree from the School of Planning and Architecture in Delhi. After graduating, Roy supported herself by teaching aerobics while honing her writing skills. She eventually wrote several

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