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. Early lifeĪrundhati Roy was born in Shillong, Meghalaya, India, to Mary Roy, a Malayali Jacobite Syrian Christian women's rights activist from Kerala and Rajib Roy, a Bengali Hindu tea plantation manager from Calcutta. She is also a political activist involved in human rights and environmental causes. Suzanna Arundhati Roy (born 24 November 1961) is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things (1997), which won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the best-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author. From the BBC programme Bookclub, 2 October 2011.
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