Suzanna Arundhati Roy
- Author
- Novelist
- Activist
in feet inches- 5 4
in kilograms- 55 kg
Black
Salt and Pepper
1989:
- National Film Award for Best Screenplay for the screenplay of "In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones."
1997:
- Booker Prize for her novel The God of Small Things.
2002:
- The Lannan Foundation's Cultural Freedom Award for her work about civil societies.
2003:
- Awarded "special recognition" as a Woman of Peace at the Global Exchange Human Rights Awards in San Francisco.
2004:
- The Sydney Peace Prize for her work in social campaigns and her advocacy of non-violence.
2006:
- The Sahitya Akademi Award by the Government of India for her collection of essays on contemporary issues, "The Algebra of Infinite Justice," but she declined to accept it.
2011:
- Awarded the Norman Mailer Prize for Distinguished Writing.
2014:
- Featured in the list of Time 100, the 100 most influential people in the world.
- Corpus Christi High School (now, Pallikoodam), Kottayam, Kerala, India
- Lawrence School, Lovedale, Nilgiri, Tamil Nadu, India
- School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi, India
Friday, 24 Nov 1961
60
Shillong, Assam (present-day Meghalaya), India
Sagittarius
Indian
Aymanam, Kottayam, Kerala, India
- A Degree in Architecture from the School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi.
Bengali Hindu (Father) Syrian Christian (Mother)
Cycling, Reading, Writing, Travelling
Divorced
- Gerard da Cunha (Architect)
- Pradip Krishen (independent filmmaker)
- She has two stepdaughters named Mithva Krishen and Pia Krishen from her second husband.
Father
- - Rajib Michael Roy (He was a tea plantation manager in Calcutta)
Mother
- - Mary Roy (A women's rights activist)
Brother
- - Lalit Kumar Christopher Roy
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