Name |
Suzanna
Arundhati Roy |
Date of birth |
24th
November 1961 |
Place of birth |
Shillong |
Brought up in
|
Aymanam, 10 minutes' drive from Kottayam in Kerala |
Family |
Mom : Mary
Roy, a revolutionist Dad :
Tea planter
Husband :Gerard Da Cunha(divorced) now married
Pradeep Krishen, film director, |
Education |
School:
Corpus Christie College:
Delhi School of Architecture Got scholarship to study the
restoration of monuments in Italy. |
Career |
architect
by training, actor,writer,has worked as an aerobics instructor
in Delhi,has even sold empty water bottles while she was 16,has
worked at the National Institute of Urban Affairs |
Achievement |
Youngest winner in the history of Booker, bagged the coveted
Booker prize for her debut novel "The God of Small Things"
in London, on 14 October 1997. |
Films |
- Has
acted in the film Massey Sahib portraying the role of a rural
girl.
- Has written and starred in the movie
'In Which Annie Gives
it Those Ones'
- Has written the script of the movie
'Electric
Moon', which was directed by her husband Pradeep Kishen.
- Has written the screenplay
for The 'Banyan Tree', a television serial.
|
Books by her |
-
The God of Small Things
-
The threat of Nuclear weapons
-
The promotion of Equal Rights
-
The Narmada dam project
-
The war on terrorism
|
Present role |
role of an activist and is waging a battle against the
construction of big dams in the central and western states of
Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat. |
Other facts |
- She received a reported
£500,000 in advances and the rights to her book were sold in
21 countries.
-
She is the first non-expatriate Indian author and the first
Indian woman to bag the booker prize
- She left
home at 16 and then lived in a squatters' camp, in a small hut
with a tin roof, within the walls of Delhi's Ferozshah Kotl
|