Arundhati Roy is the author of The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1997, and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, which was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2017. Both novels have been translated into more than forty languages. Roy’s works of nonfiction include The End of Imagination, The Doctor and the Saint, My Seditious Heart, and Azadi. In 2023 she was awarded the prestigious European Essay Prize for lifetime achievement, and in 2024 the PEN Pinter Prize for telling “urgent stories of injustice with wit and beauty.” Her latest book, a memoir, is Mother Mary Comes to Me, which was named one of the top five nonfiction books of 2025 by The New York Times and won The National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography. She lives in Delhi.