Arundhati Roy

Also known as Suzanna Arundhati Roy

Indian novelist, essayist, and activist

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Arundhati Roy is an Indian novelist, essayist, and activist known for her literary works and outspoken commentary on social and political issues. Her work matters because she combines creative writing with activism to address important concerns in India and beyond.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 24 November 1961
Works: 53

Top works

Mother Mary Comes To Me
Annihilation of caste
An atlas of impossible longing
O Deus das Pequenas Coisas
Espectros del capitalismo

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Active from: 1961-11-24

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 1,434
Total plays: 11,847

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2019 · cited 23,890x
The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project
· 1996 · cited 18,867x
Accurate normalization of real-time quantitative RT-PCR data by geometric averaging of multiple internal control genes
· 2002 · cited 15,922x
The need to belong: Desire for interpersonal attachments as a fundamental human motivation.
· 1995 · cited 14,540x
2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure
· 2021 · cited 11,620x

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Quotes

“If you are religious, then remember that this bomb is Man's challenge to God. It's worded quite simply: We have the power to destroy everything that You have created. If you're not religious, then look at it this way. This world of ours is 4 600 000 000 years old. It could end in an afternoon.”
“The trouble is that once America goes off to war, it can't very well return without having fought one. If it doesn't find its enemy, for the sake of the enraged folks back home, it will have to manufacture one. Once war begins, it will develop a momentum, a logic and a justification of its own, and we'll lose sight of why it's being fought in the first place.”
“In those early amorphous years of life, when memory had only just begun, when life was full of Beginnings and no Ends, and everything was Forever”
“Her own grief grieved her. His devastated her. (On Sophie Mol's death, describing Mamachi's grief, and Chacko's).”
“Ammu explained to Estha and Rahel that people always loved best what they Identified most with.”
“They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.”

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Commons category: Arundhati Roy
date of birth: 1961-09-24
start of work period: 1995-00-00
name in native language: Arundhati Roy

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Article

Suzanna Arundhati Roy ( Bengali pronunciation: [orundʱoti rae̯]; born 24 November 1961) is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things (1997), which won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the biggest-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author. She is also a political activist involved in human rights and environmental causes. She was the winner of the 2024 PEN Pinter Prize, given by English PEN, and she named imprisoned British-Egyptian writer and activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah as the "Writer of Courage" with whom she chose to share the award.

Early life