Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy was born in 1961 in Shillong, Meghalaya, India, to a Syrian Christian mother from Kerala and a Bengali Hindu tea planter. Her parents divorced when she was young, and she was raised by her mother, Mary Roy, a women's rights activist who successfully challenged the Syrian Christian inheritance laws in the Supreme Court of India. Roy studied architecture at the Delhi School of Architecture and briefly worked in film, writing screenplays and acting in a small role, before turning to fiction. She wrote The God of Small Things over four years, working in isolation and financing herself through odd jobs. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by The God of Small Things.