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Arundhati Roy
(1961-)

Indian Novelist, Women's Rights Activist
2003 Global Exchange Human Rights Award
2004 Sydney Peace Prize Winner

birthdate: November 24
birthplace: Shillong, Meghalaya, India

Suzanna Arundhati Roy is an Indian writer and social change activist. Arundhati Roy is one of the leaders of the worldwide anti-globalization movement and an ardent critic of US imperialistic foreign policy. She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her novel, The God of Small Things and received the Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize in 2002 for her work "about civil societies that are adversely affected by the world’s most powerful governments and corporations" and "to celebrate her life and her ongoing work in the struggle for freedom, justice and cultural diversity." In 2004, Arundhati Roy received the Sydney Peace Prize for her dedication to social change through nonviolence.


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