Arundhati Roy is the author of The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1998. She has also published The Cost of Living, a book of two essays on India’s massive dam and irrigation projects and its successful detonation of a nuclear bomb. Her most recent book of essays is Power Politics.
Ms. Roy, who was trained as an architect, is an outspoken critic of India’s nuclear weapons testing and controversial environmental policies. She lives in New Delhi, India.