Date of Birth:

Nov 24, 1961 (64 years)

Place of Birth:

Shillong, Meghalaya, India

Biography:

Suzanna Arundhati Roy is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things, which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the best-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author. She is also a political activist involved in human rights and environmental causes.