It was published in May, and the book had been sold in 18 countries by the end of June. From the beginning, the book was also a commercial success: Roy received half a million pounds as an advance. It reached fourth position on The New York Times Bestsellers list for Independent Fiction. It received the 1997 Booker Prize for Fiction and was listed as one of The New York Times Notable Books of the Year.
The publication of The God of Small Things catapulted Roy to international fame. The book is semi-autobiographical and a major part captures her childhood experiences in Aymanam. Roy began writing her first novel, The God of Small Things, in 1992, completing it in 1996. In her film review titled "The Great Indian Rape Trick", she questioned the right to "restage the rape of a living woman without her permission", and charged Kapur with exploiting Devi and misrepresenting both her life and its meaning. She attracted attention in 1994 when she criticised Shekhar Kapur's film Bandit Queen, which was based on the life of Phoolan Devi. Roy won the National Film Award for Best Screenplay in 1988 for In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones. Both were directed by her husband, Pradip Krishen, during their marriage.
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She wrote the screenplays for In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones (1989), a movie based on her experiences as a student of architecture, in which she also appeared as a performer, and Electric Moon (1992). Career Early career: screenplaysĮarly in her career, Roy worked in television and movies. Roy is a cousin of prominent media personality Prannoy Roy, the head of the Indian television media group NDTV. She became financially secure with the success of her novel The God of Small Things, published in 1997. Roy and Krishen currently live separately but are still married. Disenchanted with the film world, Roy experimented with various fields, including running aerobics classes.
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They collaborated on a television series about India's independence movement and two films, Annie and Electric Moon. In 1984, she met independent filmmaker Pradip Krishen, who offered her a role as a goatherd in his award-winning movie Massey Sahib. Roy returned to Delhi, where she obtained a position with the National Institute of Urban Affairs. They married in 1978 and lived together in Delhi, and then Goa, before they separated and divorced in 1982. She then studied architecture at the School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi, where she met architect Gerard da Cunha. Roy attended school at Corpus Christi, Kottayam, followed by the Lawrence School, Lovedale, in Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu. When she was five, the family moved back to Kerala, where her mother started a school. For some time, the family lived with Roy's maternal grandfather in Ooty, Tamil Nadu. When she was two, her parents divorced and she returned to Kerala with her mother and brother. 4.3 US foreign policy, war in AfghanistanĪrundhati Roy was born in Shillong, Meghalaya, India, to Mary Roy, a Malayali Syrian Christian women's rights activist from Kerala and Rajib Roy, a Bengali Hindu tea plantation manager from Calcutta.