ARUNDHATI ROY - Indian novelist and peace activist

 ARUNDHATI ROY - Indian  novelist and peace activist . 

Born : 24 November , 1961

Awards : Booker Prize(1997) , Sydney Peace Prize (2004) , National Film Award (1989) , Norman Mailer Prize for distinguish Writing(2011) .

Books : She write at least 30 books few are "The God of Small Things" ; "The End of Imagination"; "Power Politics" etc.

Movies And TV Shows : "In Which Annie Gives it Those Ones" ; "Electric Moon" and more . 

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Arundhati Roy was born in Shillong , Meghalaya to a Malayali Keralite Syrian Christian mother and a Bengali Hindu father , a tea planter by profession. 

When She was two , her parents got divorced , She came to Kerela with his mother and brother . She spent her childhood in Aymanam , in Kerala , She attend school at Corpus Christie . She left Kerala for Delhi at age 16 . 

Then She proceeded to study architecture at the Delhi School of Architecture , where she met her first husband , the architect Gerard Da Cunha . the two lived together at Delhi and Then Goa before They separated . 

Arundhati met her second husband , Pradeep Krishen , a film-maker , in 1984 , under whose influenced she moved into films . She acted in the role of Village girl in the award - winning movie "Massey Sahib" , and wrote the screenplays for "In Which Annie Gives it Those Ones" and "Electric Moon" both were directed by her husband Krishen , She won the National Film Award for best screenplay in 1988 for "In Which Annie Gives it Those Ones"

Roy began write his first Novel "The god of small things" in 1992. the book is semi-autobiographical and captures her childhood experience in  Aymanam . She received half - a - million pounds in advances, and rights to the book were sold in 21 countries . She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for this Novel .

Roy and Krishen eventually separated . She became financially secure with the success of her Novel "The god of small things" .

Since the success of her novel , she started to wrote the screenplay for television serial , "The Banyan Tree".

After success of her Novel "The god of small things" she started writing on political issue . She has written on varied topics such as Narmada Dam project , India's nuclear weapons and American power giant Enron's activities in India.

She has since devoted herself solely to non - fiction and politics , publishing two more collections of essays as well as working for social causes . In 2002 , Roy was convicted of contempt of court by the Supreme Court in New Delhi for accusing the court of attempting to silence protests against the Narmada Dam Project , but she received only a symbolic sentence of one day in prison . 

In response to India's testing of nuclear weapons in Pokhram , Rajasthan , Roy wrote the End of Imagination , a critique of the Indian government's nuclear policies. It was published in her collections.