Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy is the author of The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1997, and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, which has been translated into more than forty languages and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2017, as well as a finalist for the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award.

She received the 2002 Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize.

Roy's many works of nonfiction include An Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire; Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers; Capitalism: A Ghost Story; The End of Imagination; and The Doctor and the Saint: Caste, Race, and Annihilation of Caste, the Debate Between B.R. Ambedkar and M.K. Gandhi. In 2019, Lannan grantee Haymarket Books published My Seditious Heart, a collection of her essays from the past twenty years.

Published in 2025, Mother Mary Comes to Me is Roy's first work of memoir.

In 2023, Roy received the European Essay Prize for lifetime achievement, and in 2024, the PEN Pinter Prize for telling “urgent stories of injustice with wit and beauty.” She lives in Delhi, India.