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Arundhati Roy Biografía y Hechos

Arundhati Roy (Shillong, 24 de noviembre de 1961)[2]​ es una escritora, periodista y activista india. Ganó el Premio Booker en 1997 por su primera novela, El dios de las pequeñas cosas.[3]​[4]​ También es una activista política que ha tomado parte en causas por los derechos humanos y de protección del medio ambiente.[5]​ Vida personal Roy nació en Shillong (estado de Meghalaya),[6]​ de una madre cristiana sirio-ortodoxa del estado de Kerala y un padre hinduista del estado de Bengala. Pasó su juventud en Aymanam (Kerala), estudiando en Corpus Christi. Cuando tenía 16 años, se trasladó a Delhi, donde llevó un estilo de vida bohemio. Vivía en una cabaña vendiendo botellas para ganarse la vida. Luego estudió arquitectura en la Delhi School of Architecture, donde conoció a su primer esposo, el arquitecto Gerard Da Cunha.[7]​ Conoció a su segundo esposo, Pradeep Kishen, en 1984, y comenzó a trabajar en el cine. Hizo el papel de una aldeana en la película Massey Sahib.[8]​ Escribió guiones para las películas In which Annie gives it those ones y Electric moon (‘Luna eléctrica’), y en la serie de televisión The banyan tree (‘El baniano’).[7]​ Trayectoria En su carrera temprana, Roy trabajó escribiendo para programas de televisión y películas. Escribió los guiones de In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones (1989),[9]​ una película basada en sus experiencias como estudiante de arquitectura, en la cual también fue actriz, y Electric Moon (1992).[10]​ Las dos películas fueron dirigidas por su entonces esposo, Pradip Krishen, durante su matrimonio.[9]​[10]​ Roy ganó el National Film Award por mejor guion por el guion de In Which Annie Gives It Those.[11]​ Empezó a escribir la novela semiautobiográfica El dios de las pequeñas cosas en 1992 y la terminó en 1996.[12]​ El libro está inspirado en las propias experiencias de Roy durante su infancia en Aymanam.[6]​ Recibió 500.000 libras por adelantado y los derechos de la novela fueron vendidos en 21 países.[13]​ La publicación de esta primera novela lanzó a Roy a la fama internacional: con ella ganó el Premio Booker 1997[14]​ y fue seleccionada como una de las obras notables del año por The New York Times.[15]​ Alcanzó la cuarta posición en la lista de best-sellers de ficción independiente de The New York Times.[16]​ Para protestar contra las pruebas de armas nucleares realizadas por el gobierno indio en el estado de Rayastán, escribió el ensayo El final de la imaginación en 1998, que se publicó en la recopilación El precio de vivir, en el que se opone a los proyectos de represas hidroeléctricas en India. Ha publicado otras dos colecciones de ensayo y trabajado por causas sociales.[17]​ En 2004, Roy ganó el premio Sídney de la Paz por su trabajo en campañas sociales y su apoyo al pacifismo.[18]​ En 2005, participó en el Tribunal Mundial Sobre Irak.[18]​ En 2010, hizo un reportaje llamado Caminando con los camaradas sobre la guerrilla maoísta conocida como naxalita, el mayor problema de seguridad interna que sufre la india según el ex primer ministro Manmohan Singh con la intención de esclarecer las razones de la violencia y por ello es perseguida hoy en día por el estado indio.[19]​ En junio de 2017 fue publicada su segunda novela, El ministerio de la felicidad suprema.[20]​ La novela fue seleccionada para el Man Booker Prize de 2017[21]​ y fue finalista para el National Book Critics Circle Award para trabajos de ficción en enero de 2018.[22]​ En 2020 realiza reportajes sobre la repercusión en la India de la Pandemia de enfermedad por coronavirus de 2019-2020.[23]​ Obra Ficción The God of Small Things, 1997 — El dios de las pequeñas cosas, trad.: Txaro Santoro, Cecilia Ceriani; Anagrama, Barcelona, 1998 The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, 2017 — El ministerio de la felicidad suprema, trad.: Cecilia Ceriani; Anagrama, Barcelona, 2017 No ficción The End of Imagination, 1998 — El final de la imaginación, trad.: Francesc Roca; colección Argumentos, Anagrama, Barcelona, 1998[24]​ The Algebra of Infinite Justice, 2001 — El álgebra de la justicia infinita, ensayos; prólogo de John Berger; trad.: Francesc Roca, Anagrama, Barcelona, 2002 War talk, 2003 — Retórica bélica, trad.: Francesc Roca, colección Crónicas, Anagrama, Barcelona, 2006[25]​ Capitalism: A Ghost Story, 2014 — Espectros del capitalismo, trad.: Carmen Valle; Capitán Swing, Madrid, 2015[26]​ My Seditious Heart, 2019 — Mi corazón sedicioso, selección de ensayos; trad.:Cecilia Ceriani, Francesc Roca; colección Compendium, Anagrama, Barcelona, 2020 Referencias Enlaces externos Arundhati Roy: La pandemia es un portal, 4/4/2020 Movimiento por la justicia global Revolución en la India Caminando con los Camaradas, de Arundhati Roy "LA ENDEBLE LUZ DE LA DEMOCRACIA" Opening Speech at the international literaturefestival 2009 Archivado el 22 de noviembre de 2021 en Wayback Machine. 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  • In the Country of Men sinopsis y comentarios

    In the Country of Men

    Hisham Matar

    Nineyearold Suleiman is just awakening to the wider world beyond the games on the hot pavement outside his home and beyond the loving embrace of his parents. He becomes the man of ...

  • Le Dieu des Petits Riens de Arundhati Roy (Analyse de l'œuvre) sinopsis y comentarios

    Le Dieu des Petits Riens de Arundhati Roy (Analyse de l'œuvre)

    Lucy Meekley

    Ce guide de lecture pratique propose un résumé et une analyse complets de Le Dieu des petits riens d'Arundhati Roy. Il propose une exploration approfondie de l'intrigue, des person...

  • Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things - Summary sinopsis y comentarios

    Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things - Summary

    Arundhati Roy

    "The God of Small Things," written by Indian author Arundhati Roy and published in 1997, is a semiautobiographical novel set in the Indian state of Kerala. The book won the Booker...

  • The Myth of American Idealism sinopsis y comentarios

    The Myth of American Idealism

    Noam Chomsky & Nathan J. Robinson

    From one of the world’s most prominent thinkers comes an urgent warning of the threat that US power poses to humanity’s futureThe land of the free. The home of the brave. But what ...

  • Bastar Dispatches sinopsis y comentarios

    Bastar Dispatches

    Narendra

    Abujhmad in the deep interiors of Bastar is inhabited by the Abujhmadias, a primitive huntergatherer tribe whom Verrier Elwin has called the Hill Murias. Abujhmad stands today as o...

  • Globalization & Colonialism in Arundhati Roy`s "The God of small things" sinopsis y comentarios

    Globalization & Colonialism in Arundhati Roy`s "The God of small things"

    Katja Losensky

    In this essay I want to show how globalization and colonialism are phenomenons which cannot be looked at separately when speaking about India`s history and present. Roy`s book does...

  • Day of Reckoning sinopsis y comentarios

    Day of Reckoning

    Nayantara Sahgal

    Even before Indian writing in English became the fashionable thing it is today, Nayantara Sahgal was a name to reckon with internationally. In Day of Reckoning: Stories, her first ...

  • Malabar Mind-Poems sinopsis y comentarios

    Malabar Mind-Poems

    Anita Nair

    In Malabar Mind, Anita Nair's debut collection of poems, the real and corporeal, landscapes and mindscapes are explored with a fluid ease. From the quirky resonance of Malabar's na...

  • A Study Guide for Arundhati Roy's "The God of Small Things" sinopsis y comentarios

    A Study Guide for Arundhati Roy's "The God of Small Things"

    The Gale Group

    A study guide for Arundhati Roy's "The God of Small Things", excerpted from The Gale Group's acclaimed Novels for Students series. Designed with busy students in mind, this concise...

  • Meridian sinopsis y comentarios

    Meridian

    Alice Walker

    The second novel written by Alice Walker, preceding THE COLOUR PURPLE is a heartfelt and moving story about one woman's personal revolution as she joins the Civil Rights Movement. ...

  • Victory City sinopsis y comentarios

    Victory City

    Salman Rushdie

    She will breathe a new empire into life – but all worlds can escape their creator…‘Full of adventure… A celebration of the power of storytelling’ GUARDIANIn the wake of an unimport...

  • Die Goldene Legende sinopsis y comentarios

    Die Goldene Legende

    Nadeem Aslam

    Wenn ein Leben nur in der Lüge möglich istIn dem Moment, als auf der Grand Trunk Road Schüsse zu hören sind, beginnt Nargis' Leben zu zerbrechen. Ihr Ehemann gelangt versehentlich ...

  • Der Gott der kleinen Dinge von Arundhati Roy (Lektürehilfe) sinopsis y comentarios

    Der Gott der kleinen Dinge von Arundhati Roy (Lektürehilfe)

    der Querleser

    Der Gott der kleinen Dinge von Arundhati Roy – Endlich verständlich mit der Lektürehilfe von derQuerleser! Diese klare und zuverlässige Analyse von Arundhati Roys Der Gott der...

  • Lesser Breeds sinopsis y comentarios

    Lesser Breeds

    Nayantara Sahgal

    In 1932, Nurullah, a teacher aged twentythree, comes to the city of Akbarabad. He teaches literature to firstyears at the university and encounters a nonviolent resistance movement...

  • Bhima sinopsis y comentarios

    Bhima

    MT Vasudevan Nair & Gita Krishnankutty

    This is the story of Bhima, the second son, always second in line a story never adequately told until one of India's finest writers conjured him up from the silences in Vyasa's na...

  • Stealing the Ambassador sinopsis y comentarios

    Stealing the Ambassador

    Sameer Parekh

    Caught between a father who thought success and freedom could be found only in America and a grandfather who risked his life to guarantee such ideals in their homeland of India, tw...

  • The Rain Forest sinopsis y comentarios

    The Rain Forest

    Olivia Manning

    From one of the classic writers of postwar English literature comes a stunning novel of love, betrayal and redemption. Married but obstinately set in their separate ways, Hugh and ...

  • I Do Not Come to You by Chance sinopsis y comentarios

    I Do Not Come to You by Chance

    Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

    'Sparklingly funny' Wired Magazine'[Nwaubani] not merely explores a side of modern existence that touches millions every day, but does so with wit, warmth and insight' Independent'...

  • The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy (Book Analysis) sinopsis y comentarios

    The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy (Book Analysis)

    Bright Summaries

    Unlock the more straightforward side of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Min...

  • The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (Book Analysis) sinopsis y comentarios

    The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (Book Analysis)

    Bright Summaries

    Unlock the more straightforward side of The God of Small Things with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of The God of Small...

  • Secrets of Great Rainmakers sinopsis y comentarios

    Secrets of Great Rainmakers

    Jeffrey J. Fox

    In Secrets of Great Rainmakers you'll learn how to outsmart the competition and set yourself apart from the pack. Drawing on over fifty interviews with industry leaders from a wide...

  • Six Suspects sinopsis y comentarios

    Six Suspects

    Vikas Swarup

    BY THE AWARDWINNING BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRESOON TO STREAM ON DISNEY HOTSTAR AND HULU AS THE GREAT INDIAN MURDER'Unusual, witty, quirkily, cleverly plotted. A roll...

  • The Bhagavad Gita sinopsis y comentarios

    The Bhagavad Gita

    Juan Mascaro

    The Bhagavad Gita is an intensely spiritual work that forms the cornerstone of the Hindu faith, and is also one of the masterpieces of Sanskrit poetry. It describes how, at the beg...

  • The Unseen World sinopsis y comentarios

    The Unseen World

    Liz Moore

    'A staggeringly beautiful meditation on love, legacy and the emotional necessities that make life worth living.' Téa Obreht, author of The Tiger's WifeBOSTON, 1980Ada Sibelius is t...

  • Another Day of Life sinopsis y comentarios

    Another Day of Life

    Ryszard Kapuściński & William Brand

    'This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost'. In 1975 Kapuscinski's employers sent him to Angola to cover the civil war that had broken out after independence. For mo...

  • Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things sinopsis y comentarios

    Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things

    Alex Tickell

    On publication Arundhati Roy's first novel The God of Small Things (1997) rapidly became an international bestseller, winning the Booker Prize and creating a new space for Indian l...

  • The Jewel In The Crown sinopsis y comentarios

    The Jewel In The Crown

    Paul Scott

    NOW A BBC RADIO 4 EXTRA DRAMATISATION STARRING ANNA MAXWELL MARTIN AND PRASANNA PUWANARAJAHBOOK ONE OF THE RAJ QUARTETIndia 1942: everything is in flux. World War II has shown that...

  • The Fertile Earth sinopsis y comentarios

    The Fertile Earth

    Ruthvika Rao

    A thrilling story of love and resistance about two young people born across social lines, set against a tumultuous political landscape in India.The mounting curiosity amongst them ...

  • Exit West sinopsis y comentarios

    Exit West

    Mohsin Hamid

    A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick Booker Gems THE NEW YORK TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 WINNER OF THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY P...

  • The Argumentative Indian sinopsis y comentarios

    The Argumentative Indian

    Amartya Sen

    India is a very diverse country with many distinct pursuits, vastly different convictions, widely divergent customs, and a veritable feast of viewpoints. The Argumentative Indian b...

  • The Day Of The Scorpion sinopsis y comentarios

    The Day Of The Scorpion

    Paul Scott

    BOOK TWO OF THE RAJ QUARTET India, August 9th 1942. The morning brings raids and the arrest by British police of Congress Party members. Amongst the prisoners is the distinguished ...

  • Arundhati Roy - Le Dieu des petites choses - Résumé sinopsis y comentarios

    Arundhati Roy - Le Dieu des petites choses - Résumé

    Arundhati Roy

    "Le Dieu des petites choses" ("The God of Small Things") est un roman de l'écrivaine Indienne Arundhati Roy, publié en 1997. Ce livre a remporté le Booker Prize et a propulsé Roy ...

  • A Comparative Study of R. K. Narayan and Arundhati Roy: Linguistic and Literary Aspects sinopsis y comentarios

    A Comparative Study of R. K. Narayan and Arundhati Roy: Linguistic and Literary Aspects

    N. Prasanna Lakshmi

    Broadly speaking, Indian English (IE) is that variety of English used by a large number of educated Indians as a second language. Kachru (1983) used the term ‘Indian English’ for t...

  • The World According To Garp sinopsis y comentarios

    The World According To Garp

    John Irving

    This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields a feminist leader ahead of her times. It is also the life and death of a famous mother and her almostfamo...

  • The Bastard of Istanbul sinopsis y comentarios

    The Bastard of Istanbul

    Elif Shafak

    One rainy afternoon in Istanbul, a woman walks into a doctor's surgery. 'I need to have an abortion', she announces. She is nineteen years old and unmarried. What happens that afte...

  • A Hope More Powerful than the Sea sinopsis y comentarios

    A Hope More Powerful than the Sea

    Melissa Fleming

    Soon to be a major film, produced by Steven Spielberg and J. J. Abrams.This is the story of Doaa, an ordinary girl from a village in Syria, who in 2015 became one of five hundred p...

  • Babylon Revisited sinopsis y comentarios

    Babylon Revisited

    F. Scott Fitzgerald

    'But it hadn't been given for nothing. It had been given, even the most wildly squandered sum, as an offering to destiny that he might not remember the things most worth rememberin...

  • Herzog sinopsis y comentarios

    Herzog

    Saul Bellow

    Saul Bellow's Herzog is part confessional, part exorcism, and a wholly unique achievement in postmodern fiction. Is Moses Herzog losing his mind? His formidable wife Madeleine has ...

  • The Filter Bubble sinopsis y comentarios

    The Filter Bubble

    Eli Pariser

    Imagine a world where all the news you see is defined by your salary, where you live, and who your friends are. Imagine a world where you never discover new ideas. And where you ca...

  • Mis últimos 10 minutos y 38 segundos en este extraño mundo sinopsis y comentarios

    Mis últimos 10 minutos y 38 segundos en este extraño mundo

    Elif Shafak

    FINALISTA DEL PREMIO BOOKER Y UNO DE LOS MEJORES LIBROS DEL AÑO SEGÚN ELLE300.000 LECTORES, TRADUCIDA EN CINCUENTA PAÍSES Y ENTRE LOS 40 MEJORES LIBROS DE 2020 SEGÚN ESQUIRE«Elif S...

  • Charcoal Joe sinopsis y comentarios

    Charcoal Joe

    Walter Mosley

    Seymour Brathwaite, a young physicist, was found standing over the body of a murdered man. Charcoal Joe, one of the deadliest men in America, wants Brathwaite cleared. Easy Rawlin...

  • The Submerged Plot and the Mother's Pleasure from Jane Austen to Arundhati Roy sinopsis y comentarios

    The Submerged Plot and the Mother's Pleasure from Jane Austen to Arundhati Roy

    Kelly A. Marsh

    In The Submerged Plot and the Mother’s Pleasure from Jane Austen to Arundhati Roy, Kelly A. Marsh examines the familiar, overt plot of the motherless daughter growing into maturity...

  • The Delicate Prey sinopsis y comentarios

    The Delicate Prey

    Paul Bowles

    'And then one day a solitary figure appeared, moving toward them across the lifeless plain from the west.One man on a camel... 'Paul Bowles's unforgettable short stories portray pe...

  • Meatless Days sinopsis y comentarios

    Meatless Days

    Sara Suleri

    'Some of the more heartshaking writing about love and grief I've ever read' Kamila Shamsie, from the introductionMeatless Days is a searing memoir of life in the newlycreated count...

  • White Blood sinopsis y comentarios

    White Blood

    Nanak Singh & Dilraj Singh Suri

    A lyrical, luminous offering from the pioneer of Punjabi novel writing and Sahitya Akademi‐awardee Nanak SinghWhen a ticket officer apprehends a ticketless traveller at the Amritsa...

  • No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies sinopsis y comentarios

    No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies

    Julian Aguon & Arundhati Roy

    A Michelle Obama Reach Higher Fall 2022 reading list pickA Library Journal "BEST BOOK OF 2022""Aguon’s book is for everyone, but he challenges history by placing indigenous conscio...

  • The Incarnations sinopsis y comentarios

    The Incarnations

    Susan Barker

    A New York Times Notable Book of the YearShortlisted for the Kirkus Prize'Reads as China's Midnight's Children. Utterly remarkable' INDEPENDENT'A kaleidoscopically imaginative nov...

  • Every Nation for Itself sinopsis y comentarios

    Every Nation for Itself

    Ian Bremmer

    Following the acclaim for The End of the Free Market, Ian Bremmer is back with Every Nation for Itself, where he addresses the next big issue for the shifting world economy.'Smart ...

  • A Heart so White sinopsis y comentarios

    A Heart so White

    Javier Marías

    A Heart so White is the breathtaking international bestseller and IMPAC Awardwinning masterpiece by Javier Marías, whose highlyanticipated new novel The Infatuations is published i...

  • Bhima Lone Warrior sinopsis y comentarios

    Bhima Lone Warrior

    MT Vasudevan Nair

    This is the story of Bhima, the second son, always second in line a story never adequately told until one of India's finest writers conjured him up from the silences in Vyasa's na...