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Arundhati Roy

1961 - Today

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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 best-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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Arundhati Roy is the 4,016th most popular writer (down from 3,944th in 2019), the 546th most popular biography from India (down from 488th in 2019) and the 64th most popular Indian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Arundhati Roy ranks 4,016 out of 7,302. Before her are Marcel Arland, Ibn Bibi, Ferdinand Bruckner, Bat Ye'or, Savo Kostadinovski, and Roger Vitrac. After her are Abbas Ibn al-Ahnaf, Ralph Ellison, Cui Hao, Konrad Pellikan, Alexander Neckam, and Rosa Montero.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Arundhati Roy ranks 190. Before her are Alberto Núñez Feijóo, Doris Dragović, Eric Allin Cornell, Vincent Gallo, Graham McTavish, and Kati Outinen. After her are Jörg Meuthen, Chendo, David Heyman, Marc Levy, Supriya Pathak, and Andrea Arnold.

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In India

Among people born in India, Arundhati Roy ranks 546 out of 1,861. Before her are Aruna Asaf Ali (1909), Vichitravirya (null), Bharatendu Harishchandra (1850), Robert Swinhoe (1836), Asrani (1940), and Lobsang Sangay (1968). After her are Sanjeev Kumar (1938), Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay (1898), Arvind Krishna (1962), Jasraj (1930), Jagjivan Ram (1908), and Rekha (1954).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Arundhati Roy ranks 64. Before her are Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (1894), Sumitranandan Pant (1900), Cerverí de Girona (1259), Subhadra Kumari Chauhan (1904), U. R. Ananthamurthy (1932), and Bharatendu Harishchandra (1850). After her are Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay (1898), Surdas (1478), Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (1908), Qurratulain Hyder (1927), Nagarjun (1911), and Faizi (1547).

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