Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy (Malayalam: അരുന്ധതി റോയ്, Devanagari: अरुन्धती राय) (lahir 24 November 1961) adalah seorang novelis dan aktivis India. Ia memenangkan Booker Prize pada 1997 untuk novel pertamanya The God of Small Things.

Roy dilahirkan di Shillong, Meghalaya. Ibunya berasal dari Kerala dan beragama Kristen Ortodoks Suriah, ayahnya dari Bengal dan beragama Hindu. Ia dibesarkan di Aymanam, di Kerala, bersekolah di Corpus Christi. Ia kemudian pergi ke Delhi pada usia 16, dan tinggal di sebuah gubuk kecil dengan atap seng di daerah Feroz Shah Kotla di Delhi, dan menjual botol bekas untuk menunjang hidupnya. Ia kemudian mempelajari arsitektur di Sekolah Arsitektur Delhi, di mana ia bertemu dengan suami pertamanya, arsitek Gerard Da Cunha.

Bibliografi

Roy, Arundhati; (2004). An Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire, Consortium Book Sales and Dist, September 15, 2004, hardcover, ISBN 0-89608-728-X; trade paperback, Consortium, September 15, 2004, ISBN 0-89608-727-1
Roy, Arundhati; (2004). Public Power in the Age of Empire. Seven Stories Press. ISBN 1-58322-682-6.
Roy, Arundhati; (2004). The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy. South End Press. ISBN 0-89608-710-7.
Roy, Arundhati; (2003). War Talk. South End Press. ISBN 0-89608-724-7.
Foreword to For Reasons of State (2003) ISBN 1-56584-794-6 by Noam Chomsky
Roy, Arundhati; (2002). Power Politics. South End Press. ISBN 0-89608-668-2.
Roy, Arundhati; (2002). The Algebra of Infinite Justice. Flamingo. ISBN 0-00-714949-2. (a collection of essays: The End of Imagination, The Greater Common Good, Power Politics [also a book], The Ladies Have Feelings, So..., The Algebra of Inifinite Justice, War is Peace, Democracy, War Talk [also a book] and Come September.)
The Cost of Living (1999), which contains the essays 'The greater common good' and 'The end of imagination', which are now included in the book 'The Algebra of Infinite Justice'
Roy, Arundhati; (1997). The God of Small Things. Flamingo. ISBN 0-00-655068-1.

Lihat pula

"We" A film about the words of Arundhati Roy
More on Arundhati Roy
Literary Encyclopedia (in-progress)
SAWNET biography
Bibliography
Roy's biography
Research on Arundhati Roy, Bibliographical Information
Come September Transcript of speech on 18 September 2002 and conversation with Howard Zinn
Archive of Arundhati Roy on Democracy Now!
`We have to become the global resistance' (Abriged version of speech given at the World Social Forum in Mumbai, 16. January 2004)
Tide? or Ivory Snow? Public Power in the Age of Empire (August 16th, 2004 speech in San Francisco)
ABC Radio National transcript of Sydney Peace Prize Lecture (with audio) or download the speech here
The Most Cowardly War in History (Article dated 24 June 2005)
Complete Collection of Her Essays and Speeches (in-progress)
Calcutta Telegraph on house / forest controversy