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Arundhati Roy Arundhati Roy, also known as Arundhati Roychowdhury, (born December 4, 1961) is an Indian author, journalist and political activist. She is the author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The God of Small Things (1997), and the novel The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2015). Roy was born in Calcutta, the daughter of an Indian civil servant. She studied at the University of Cambridge and the London School of Economics, and worked as a journalist for The Hindu and The New York Times. In 1997, she won the Booker Prize for her novel The God of Small Things, which was later made into a successful film. Roy has written two further novels, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2015) and The Book of Disquiet (2018). She has also written a number of non-fiction books, including The Cost of Living (2003), The Alchemy of Freedom (2006), and The God of Small Things: A Novel (1997). Roy is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, and is a member of the Royal Society of Literature.
