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About the author

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Arundhati Roy
was born in 1959 in Shillong, India. She studied architecture in New Delhi, where she now lives. She has worked as a film designer and screenplay writer in India. Roy is the author of the novel
The God of Small Things
, for which she received the 1997 Booker Prize. The novel has been translated into dozens of languages worldwide. She has written several nonfiction books, including
The Cost of Living
,
Power Politics
,
War Talk
,
An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire
,
and
Public Power in the Age of Empire
. Roy was featured in the BBC television documentary
Dam/age
, which is about the struggle against big dams in India. A collection of interviews with Arundhati Roy by David Barsamian was published as
The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile
. She is a contributor to the Verso anthology
Kashmir: The Case for Freedom
. Her newest books are
Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers,
published by Haymarket Books, and
Walking with the Comrades
, published by Penguin. Roy is the recipient of the 2002 Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Prize.