アルンダティ・ロイ Arundhati Roy
インド南部の作家、批評家。最初に書いた小説『小さきものたちの神』で1997年にブッカー賞受賞。1961年インド南部のケララ州出身のシリア教会キ
リスト教徒の母と、ベンガル出身のヒンドゥ教徒の父の間に生まれる。生まれはメガラヤ州だが、幼少期はケララ州で過ごす。建築を学んだ後、女優や脚本家な
どを経て『小さきものたちの神』を執筆。同時に平和運動、反核運動やナルマダ・ダム開発に対する反対運動でも知られ、グローバリゼーションの問題について
の多くのエッセイを執筆している。
Arundhati Roy
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Arundhati Roy was born in
Assam to a Keralite Syrian Christian mother, the women's rights
activist Mary Roy, and a Bengali father, a tea planter by profession.
She spent her childhood in Aymanam in Kerala, and went to school in
Corpus Christi. She then studied architecture at the Delhi School of
Architecture, where she met her first husband, architect Gerard Da
Cunha.
Roy lives in New Delhi.
Art
Roy met her second husband, filmmaker Pradeep Kishen, in 1984, and
became involved in film-making under his influence. She played a
village girl in the award-winning movie Massey Sahib, and wrote the
screenplays for In Which Annie Gives it Those Ones and Electric Moon.
She also wrote the screenplay for The 'Banyan Tree', a television
serial.
Roy began writing The God of Small Things in 1992 and finished it in
1996. She received half a million pounds as an advance, and rights to
the book were sold in 21 countries. The book is semi-autobiographical
and a major part captures her childhood experiences in Aymanam.
Contrary to some assumptions, Roy is not one of twins. This
misinformation arose from the assumption that the character of Rahel is
based on herself. We see this in the physical description of the
character in her adulthood and also by some of this character's
interactions with her mother, Ammu [citation needed].
Arundhati Roy is the cousin of the famous media personality Prannoy Roy.
Literary Works
Books
The God of Small Things, 1997: Booker prize winning novel
The Greater Common Good, 1999
The Algebra of Infinite Justice, 2001
An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire, 2004
The End of Imagination, 1998
The Cost of Living, 1999
Power Politics, 2002
War Talk, 2003
Essays and Articles
Insult and Injury in Afghanistan (MSNBC, 20 Oct 2001)
War is Peace (Outlook, 29 Oct 01)
Stop bombing Afghanistan
Activism
The God of Small Things is the only novel written by Roy. Since winning
the Booker Prize, she has concentrated her writing on political and
pacifist issues. These include the Narmada Dam project, India's nuclear
weapons and power company Enron's activities in India. She is a
figure-head of the anti-globalization/alter-globalization movement and
a vehement critic of neo-imperialism. She is also a critic of
industrialization and development.
In response to India's testing of nuclear weapons in Pokhran,
Rajasthan, Roy wrote The End of Imagination, a critique of the Indian
government's nuclear policies. It was published in her collection The
Cost of Living, in which she also crusaded against India's massive
hydroelectric dam projects in the central and western states of
Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat. She has since devoted herself
solely to nonfiction and politics, publishing two more collections of
essays, as well as working for social causes.
In 2006, Roy signed a letter calling Israel's attacks on Lebanon a "war
crime", and accused Israel of "state terror".
In June 2005 she took part in the World Tribunal on Iraq.
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