Tapan Kumar Pradhan
b. 1972writer
novelist, essayist, and activist
Arundhati Roy
b. 1961, born Shillong, writes in English, Hindi, writer, novelist, essayist, journalist
Suzanna Arundhati Roy 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 biggest-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author. She is also a political activist involved in human rights and environmental causes. She was the winner of the 2024 PEN Pinter Prize, given by English PEN, and she named imprisoned British-Egyptian writer and activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah as the “Writer of Courage” with whom she chose to share the award.
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Books on record
On Open Library
The God of Small Things1997
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness2017
Azadi2020
Annihilation of caste1937
The cost of living1999
Mother Mary Comes to Me2025Editions Open Library lists under this name; a namesake may slip in.
Awards
| 2005 | Sahitya Akademi Award in English for The Algebra of Infinite Justice |
Elsewhere
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Also writing in English
Kishori Charan Das
1924–2004Odia writer
Sitakant Mahapatra
b. 1937writer from Odisha
R. K. Narayan
1906–2001English-language writer (1906–2001)
Annada Shankar Ray
1905–2002writer, poet, essayist (1905-2002)
Amitav Ghosh
b. 1956writer