Arundhati Roy was born in 1961 in Bengal, India, and grew up in Kerala. She got her degree in architecture from the Delhi School of Architecture, but became a screenwriter instead, writing scripts for movies and television in India. She lives in Delhi with her husband, film-maker Pradeep Kishen.      Her first novel, The God of Small Things (1997), won the prestigious Booker Prize and became an international best-seller. The book, which took Roy five years to write, is not strictly autobiographical, but she says “the sadness of the book” *   has stayed with her, and that she may never write another novel. [Photo Pradip Kishen]      Arundhati Roy - Jon Simmons Arundhati Roy: India's Instant Celebrity - Shivani Sethi, INDOlink Profile of Arundhati Roy - Vir Sanghvi, The Rediff Special An unsuitable girl - Maya Jaggi, Mail & Guardian [8.97] Arundhati Roy - Claire Scobie, INDIA50 Interview with Arundhati Roy - KON, WordsWorth [6.97] SAWNET: Arundhati Roy - UMD Arundhati Roy - Jon Simmons Excerpt - BookBrowse.com Review - Michiko Kakutani, NY Times Review - Alice Truax, NY Times Book Review Review - Manorama Mathai, IndiaStar Review - Indu Saraiya, Indiaworld Article - Time [4.97] Study Guide - Paul Brians Study Guide - Tony Watkins Study Guide - R. A. Bolton Caste and "The God of Small Things" - Allison Elliott Roy on Writing "The God of Small Things" - Jon Simmons Roy, Arundhati. Power Politics. South End Press, 2001.   Non-Fiction. Roy, Arundhati. The Cost of Living. New York: Modern Library, 1999.   Non-Fiction. Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things. New York: HarperCollins, 1997.   Fiction. Roy, Arundhati. The End of Imagination. Outlook Magazine.   Essay.                                    Reprinted in The Cost of Living. Roy, Arundhati. "Introduction."  New Nukes : India, Pakistan and Global Nuclear Disarmament. Praful Bidwai, et al. Interlink, 2000.   Non-Fiction; Contributor. Dhawan, R. K. Arundhati Roy: the Novelist Extraordinary. New Delhi: Prestige Books, 1999. Sharma, R. S. Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things : Critique and Commentary.                             New Delhi: Creative Books, 1998. Page copyright ©2001 Anniina Jokinen. All rights reserved. Page created on September 12, 2001.