Arundhati Roy - SpeedyLook encyclopedia

Biography

Born with Shillong, in the state of the Meghalaya of a Christian mother kéralaise and a Bengali father Hindu, it passes its childhood to Aymanam in the Kerala. It leaves this state of the south of India for the capital Delhi at the 16 years age, and begins a bohemian life, living a covered sheet hut and gaining its subsistence by selling empty beer quills. It off begins then studies of Architecture to the Delhi School Architecture .

In 1984, Arundhati meets her engaged couple, Pradip Krishen, realizer of cinema, which introduces it into the medium of the cinema. It takes part soon in its work, thus playing the part of a young villager in the film Massey Sahib (1985) and writing the scenarios of In Which Annie Gives it Those Ones (1988) and Electric Moon (1992). She writes to God of small the riens , which at the time of its publication in 2000 becomes a world best-seller (he obtains Booker Prize).

Pacifism and social engagement

Arundhati Roy is also famous for its pacifist activism . Its first test, heading The End off Imagination (end of imagination), was a reaction to the Indian nuclear tests of Pokharan to the the Rajasthan. Will follow The Greater Common Good (the best community property), against the policy of dam carried out by the Indian government, and The Reincarnation off Rumpelstiltskin (reincarnation of Rumpelstiltskin), which analyzes the privatization of the channels of distribution of essential things like water and electricity.

It defends the idea of After-development and took part in its conceptualization, thus it took part in several social forums, in particular that of Mumbai (2004).

In March 2002, it is condemned by the Indian Supreme court to have denounced the legal decision authorizing the construction of a stopping on the Narmadâ, symbolic condemnation one day of prison and 2000 Roupie S (35 € during February 2004). In 2004, Roy accepted the Sydney price of Peace for its engagement in social campaigns and its support with pacifism. In 2005, it took part in the World Court on Iraq.

Works

Fiction

God of Small Riens , 1997 (transl. Frenchwoman 2000?). ISBN 2070747972

Tests

the Cost of living , ISBN 2070757285
The End off Imagination
The Greater Common Good
The Reincarnation off Rumpelstiltskin
Bin Laden secrecy of family of America
the Writer-militant , entirety of the tests and political articles writings since 1998, translated into French, ISBN 2070302814

Articles

To besiege the Empire
dangers of the all-humanitarian

External bonds

bio and cards of reading of works of A. Roy

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