Copies of Indian writer Arundhati Roy's novel The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness are stacked up at a book store in New Delhi on June 6. Photo: AFP
Born in Meghalaya, India, in 1961, Arundhati Roy is the daughter of a Syrian Christian mother and Bengali Hindu father. Her political causes have taken her to live with Indian Maoists in the jungle and visit Edward Snowden in Moscow and advocate for Kashmiri independence.
Roy was 35 when she published her debut, The God Of Small Things, to great acclaim. It won the Booker prize, and sold millions of copies in 42 languages.
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