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24 Nov,1961(age 52)Shillong, Assam (present-day
Meghalaya), India
Rajib Roy, a Bengali Hindu tea plantation manager from
Calcutta and Mary Roy, a Malayali Syrian Christian
women's rights activist from Kerala
uncle--George Issac (owned the Palat Pickles--the slogan:
Emperor in the realm of taste
Roy attended school at Corpus Christi, Kottayam, followed
by the Lawrence School, Tamil Nadu.
She earned her degree from the School of Planning and
Architecture in Delhi.
Her first husband was Gerard Da Cunha, whom she met
while in college. Their marriage lasted approximately four
years.
Roy wrote and starred in the film In Which Annie Gives It
Those Ones(2004), and she wrote the script for Electric
Moon, directed by her second husband Pradip Krishen.
The success of her first novel The God of Small Things,
published in 1997.
She has published many works of nonfiction including
several essays as well as The End Of Imagination(1998),The
Greater Common Good(1999),The Cost Of
Living(1999),Power Politics(2002),War Talk(2003),And
Ordinary Persons Guide To Empire(2004).
In January 2006 she was awarded the Sahitya Akademi
award for her collection of essays, The Algebra Of Infinite
Justice, but she declined to accept it.

The God of Small Things
Completed in May 1996
published in 4/4/1997 by Random
House
the Booker Price--Oct. 1997 (Indias
50th anniversary of
independence)--the first non-
expatriate Indian author and the
first Indian woman to win the price