2017.03.26 作家阿伦达蒂-罗伊

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Kirsty Young's castaway is the writer, Arundhati Roy. She won the Booker Prize for her first novel, The God Of Small Things, which has been translated into 40 languages and became the best-selling book ever by a non-expatriate Indian. After a gap of 20 years, her second novel will be published in June.

Brought up in Kerala, her Syrian Christian mother left her marriage when her children were young and set up a small school where Arundhati and her brother were educated. Raised to be independent, aged 16, Arundhati left home to study architecture in Delhi before being introduced to the film world by her second husband. Since the publication of The God of Small Things in 1997, she has continued to write non-fiction, using her influence her to focus on tackling injustice. She has campaigned against India's nuclear programme, dam-building, globalisation, religious intolerance and the inequality of Indian society.



作家阿伦达蒂-罗伊。她的第一部小说《小事之神》获得了布克奖，该书被翻译成40种语言，成为有史以来非海外印度人最畅销的书籍。时隔20年后，她的第二部小说将于6月出版。

她在喀拉拉邦长大，她的叙利亚基督徒母亲在她的孩子年幼时离开了她的婚姻，建立了一所小学校，阿伦达蒂和她的兄弟在那里接受教育。16岁时，阿伦达蒂离开家到德里学习建筑，然后在她第二任丈夫的介绍下进入电影界。自1997年出版《小事之神》以来，她继续写非虚构作品，利用她的影响力她专注于解决不公正问题。她曾发起运动，反对印度的核计划、水坝建设、全球化、宗教不容忍和印度社会的不平等。