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Arundhati Roy

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Abstract

Arundhati Roy (1961-), originally a student of architecture, started her writing career as a screenplay writer. Before becoming one of the most popular fiction writers within the canon of post-Rushdie Indian Anglophone literature, Roy wrote screenplays for films like In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones (1989) and Electric Moon (1992). Roy is best known for her debut novel The God of Small Things (1997), which won the Man Booker Prize and went on to become one of the most successful Indian novels across the world.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationThe Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies
EditorsSangeeta Ray, Henry Schwartz
PublisherWiley
Pages1-3
Number of pages3
ISBN (Electronic)9781119076506
ISBN (Print)9781119076513
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 28 2016

Publication series

NameThe Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. All rights reserved.

Keywords

  • essay
  • Indian literature
  • novel and novella
  • politics
  • postcolonialism

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