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Suzanna Arundhati Roy (Bengali pronunciation: [orundʱoti rae̯]; born 24 November 1961) [1] is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things (1997), which won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the best-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author. [1]
Priya A. S. is an Indian writer of Malayalam literature.She writes short stories, children's literature, translations and memoirs. [1] She has translated Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things into Malayalam under the title Kunju Karyangalude Odeythampuran of which Roy herself has said that although there have been translations in several languages, no other translation is as important to her ...
Arundhati Roy. The God of Small Things is a family drama novel written by Indian writer Arundhati Roy. It is a story about the childhood experiences of fraternal twins whose lives are destroyed by the "Love Laws" prevalent in the 1960s Kerala, India. The novel explores how small, seemingly insignificant occurrences, decisions and experiences ...
Roy's characters run the gamut of Indian society and include an intersex woman , a rebellious architect, and her landlord who is a supervisor in the intelligence service. [4] The narrative spans across decades and locations, but primarily takes place in Delhi and Kashmir .
She also read books of Malayalam writers M.T. Vasudevan Nair, Paul Zacharia and O.V. Vijayan in English translation. She also stated The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy an "incredible book". [3] At age 16, she aspired to become a writer. Speaking to The Hindu, she said:
Aymanam (also spelled in her novel "Ayemenem") is the setting for The 1997 novel, The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, the village where she grew up.In the village, two houses—Puliyampallil House and Shanti House was used "to construct her 'Ayemenem House'".
Booker Prize-winning Indian author Arundhati Roy could be prosecuted for allegedly seditious comments made over a decade ago, after a top official in Delhi said there was enough evidence to lay ...
Following is the list of recipients of Sahitya Akademi translation prizes for their works written in Malayalam. The award, as of 2019, consisted of ₹ 50,000. [ 1 ]