Arundhati Roy.
 To
me the god of small things is the inversion of God. God's a
big thing and God's in control - Arundhati Roy.
Born in 1961 on the 24th November in Bengal, Arundhati Roy
grew up and spent her crucial childhood years in Aymanam
Kerala. Her mother, a christian woman from Kerala and her
father was a bengali hindu tea planter. She did not attend school
until she was 10, she was Corpus Christi's, first student,
an informal school run by her mother Mary Roy. As a teenager,
Roy went on to attend a boarding school in southern India and
finished at the Delhi School of Planning and Architecture.
Though trained as an architect, she developed her literary and
intellectual abilities unconstrained by the set rules of formal
education in her mothers school. She began writing in In
Which Annie Gives it Those Ones, and wrote the script for
Pradip Kishen's 'Electric Moon'.
 Her
first novel, "The God of Small Things," has won the English-speaking
world's most premier honor, The Booker Prize.
The novel is a tale of Indian boy-and-girl twins, Estha
and Rahel, and their family's tragedies; the story's
centre point is the death of their 9-year-old half-British cousin,
Sophie Mol, visiting them on holiday. The book got published
in more than 20 nations, and earned her $1 million.
Roy is the first Indian author and the first Indian woman to
have won this prize, she's one of the world's most celebrated
novelists. Now in her late 30s, living in Delhi, Arundhati Roy
is in one of People Magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People
in the World 1998"
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