Arundhati Roy

ARUNDHATI ROY este scriitoare, iar romanul ei Dumnezeul lucrurilor marunte (The God of Small Things) a fost distins cu Booker Prize, fiind tradus in peste 40 de limbi. S-a nascut in 1959 in Shillong, India, si a facut studii de arhitectura in Delhi, unde locuieste in prezent. A publicat, de asemenea, o serie de eseuri, intre care Listening to Grasshoppers (2009), Broken Republic (2009), Walking with the Comrades (2011), Capitalism: A Ghost Story (2014) si Things That Can and Cannot Be Said (2016), pe care il semneaza impreuna cu John Cusack. Arundhati Roy a primit Lannan Cultural Freedom Award in 2002, Norman Mailer Prize for Distinguished Writing in 2011 si Premiul Ambedkar Sudar in 2015. In 2017, publica al doilea roman, Ministerul fericirii supreme (The Ministry of Utmost Happiness; Humanitas Fiction, 2019), nominalizat la Man Booker Prize si finalist al National Book Critics Circle Award in acelasi an.