Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy (Malayalam: അരുന്ധതി റോയ്, Devanagari: अरुंधती राय) (lahir 24 November 1961) adalah seorang novelis dan aktivis India. Ia memenangkan Booker Prize pada 1997 untuk novel pertamanya The God of Small Things.
Roy dilahirkan di Shillong, Meghalaya. Ibunya berasal dari Kerala dan beragama Syrian Christian, ayahnya dari Bengal dan beragama Hindu. Ia dibesarkan di Aymanam, di Kerala, bersekolah di Corpus Christi. Ia kemudian pergi ke Delhi pada usia 16, dan tinggal di sebuah gubuk kecil dengan atap seng di daerah Feroz Shah Kotla di Delhi, dan menjual botol bekas untuk menunjang hidupnya. Ia kemudian mempelajari arsitektur di Delhi School of Architecture, di mana ia bertemu dengan suami pertamanya, arsitek Gerard Da Cunha.
Bibliografi
- Roy, Arundhati; (2004). An Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire, Consortium Book Sales and Dist, September 15, 2004, hardcover, ISBN 089608728X; trade paperback, Consortium, September 15, 2004, ISBN 0896087271
- Roy, Arundhati; (2004). Public Power in the Age of Empire. Seven Stories Press. ISBN 1583226826.
- Roy, Arundhati; (2004). The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy. South End Press. ISBN 0896087107.
- Roy, Arundhati; (2003). War Talk. South End Press. ISBN 0896087247.
- Foreword to For Reasons of State (2003) ISBN 1565847946 by Noam Chomsky
- Roy, Arundhati; (2002). Power Politics. South End Press. ISBN 0896086682.
- Roy, Arundhati; (2002). The Algebra of Infinite Justice. Flamingo. ISBN 0-00-714949-2. (a collection of essays: The End of Imagination, The Greater Common Good, Power Politics [also a book], The Ladies Have Feelings, So..., The Algebra of Inifinite Justice, War is Peace, Democracy, War Talk [also a book] and Come September.)
- The Cost of Living (1999), which contains the essays 'The greater common good' and 'The end of imagination', which are now included in the book 'The Algebra of Infinite Justice'
- Roy, Arundhati; (1997). The God of Small Things. Flamingo. ISBN 0-00-655068-1.
Lihat juga
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- "We" A film about the words of Arundhati Roy
- More on Arundhati Roy
- Literary Encyclopedia (in-progress)
- SAWNET biography
- Bibliography
- Roy's biography
- Research on Arundhati Roy, Bibliographical Information
- Come September Transcript of speech on 18 September 2002 and conversation with Howard Zinn
- Archive of Arundhati Roy on Democracy Now!
- `We have to become the global resistance' (Abriged version of speech given at the World Social Forum in Mumbai, 16. January 2004)
- Tide? or Ivory Snow? Public Power in the Age of Empire (August 16th, 2004 speech in San Francisco)
- ABC Radio National transcript of Sydney Peace Prize Lecture (with audio) or download the speech here
- The Most Cowardly War in History (Article dated 24 June 2005)
- Complete Collection of Her Essays and Speeches (in-progress)
- Calcutta Telegraph on house / forest controversy