Arundhati Roy

Booker-winning author and political activist · age 64

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life in chapters

7 milestones from birth to now, with Arundhati's age at every one.

1960s

  1. Birth

    Born November 24, 1961

1980s

  1. age ~27 Award

    Wins National Film Award for Best Screenplay

    screenwriter

    Roy won India's National Film Award for Best Screenplay for the film In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones.

1990s

  1. age ~36 Award

    Wins the 1997 Booker Prize for The God of Small Things

    winner

    Her debut novel The God of Small Things won the Booker Prize for Fiction, making her the first Indian woman to win the award.

2010s

  1. age ~56 Release

    Publishes The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

    author

    Roy released her second novel, her first fiction in two decades after The God of Small Things.

2020s

  1. age ~63 Award

    Awarded the 2024 PEN Pinter Prize

    winner

    Roy received the PEN Pinter Prize, given to a writer of outstanding literary merit who casts an unflinching gaze upon the world.

  2. age ~64 Release

    Publishes memoir Mother Mary Comes to Me

    author

    Roy released Mother Mary Comes to Me, a memoir centred on her relationship with her mother, Mary Roy.

  3. age 64 Award

    Wins the 2026 National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography

    winner

    Mother Mary Comes to Me won the National Book Critics Circle Award in the autobiography category at a ceremony in Manhattan.

age 64 now

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