Arundhati Roy

<p><strong>Arundhati Roy</strong> studied architecture in New Delhi, where she now lives. She is the author of the novels <em>The God of Small Things</em>, for which she received the 1997 Booker Prize, and <em>The Ministry of Utmost Happiness</em>. She has written several nonfiction books, including <em>Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers</em>, <em>Capitalism: A Ghost Story, </em><em>Walking with the Comrades</em>, <em>Things That Can and Cannot Be Said </em>(with John Cusack), and <em>The End of Imagination</em><em>.</em> She is the recipient of the 2002 Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize.</p>