In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones
screenplay · First published 2026
Author guide
Arundhati Roy Books in Order
Arundhati Roy is an Indian writer and activist whose work spans fiction, political essays, reportage, memoir, interviews, and screenwriting. Her debut novel, The God of Small Things, won the 1997 Booker Prize. Her nonfiction addresses nationalism, caste, militarism, corporate power, globalization, democracy, environmental displacement, and Kashmir. She studied architecture in New Delhi and lives in Delhi.
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The God of Small Things
Roy's Booker Prize-winning debut and clearest entry point to her fiction.
Azadi: Freedom, Fascism, Fiction
A concise entry point to her later political essays.
Outside the series
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Novels (2)
- The God of Small Things
novel · 1997
The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with chrome tailfins is stranded on the highway amid a Marxist workers' demonstration. Inside the car sit two-egg twins Rahel and Esthappen,…
- The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
novel · 2017
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes us on an intimate journey of many years across the Indian subcontinent—from the cramped neighborhoods of Old Delhi and the roads of the new city to the mountains and valleys of Kashmir and beyond,…
Nonfiction (1)
- Mother Mary Comes to Me
memoir · 2025
A raw and deeply moving memoir from the legendary author of The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness that traces the complex relationship with her mother, Mary Roy, a fierce and formidable force who shaped Arundhati’s…
Essays and speeches (14)
- The End of Imagination
pamphlet · 1998
Five books of essays in one volume from the Booker Prize–winner and “one of the most ambitious and divisive political essayists of her generation” (The Washington Post). With a new introduction by Arundhati Roy, this new collection begins…
- The Cost of Living
essay-collection · 1999
Describes how India's ambitious dam projects created suffering along with modernization.
- The Greater Common Good
pamphlet · 1999
- The Algebra of Infinite Justice
essay-collection · 2002
This collection of Arundhati Roy’s early political essays ranges from the iconic ‘The End of Imagination’ and ‘The Greater Common Good’ about India’s nuclear tests and the dam industry to the equally influential ‘The Algebra of Infinite…
- War Talk
essay-collection · 2003
- An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire
essay-collection · 2004
- Public Power in the Age of Empire
essay · 2004
- Listening to Grasshoppers: Field Notes on Democracy
essay-collection · 2009
- Broken Republic: Three Essays
essay-collection · 2011
On Naxalite movement and Indian state's counter insurgency methods and other policies.
- The Hanging of Afzal Guru and the Strange Case of the Attack on the Indian Parliament
essay-collection · 2013
- Capitalism: A Ghost Story
essay · 2014
"From the poisoned rivers, barren wells, and clear-cut forests, to the hundreds of thousands of farmers who have committed suicide to escape punishing debt, to the hundreds of millions of people who live on less than two dollars a day,…
- Azadi: Freedom, Fascism, Fiction
essay-collection · 2020
The chant of 'Azadi!' - Urdu for 'Freedom'-is the slogan of the freedom struggle in Kashmir against what the Kashmiris see as the Indian Occupation. Ironically, it also became the chant of millions on the streets of India against the…
Plays (1)
- In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones
screenplay · 2026
Collaborations (2)
- Kashmir: The Case for Freedom
co-authored-essay-collection · 2011
Kashmir is one of the most protracted and bloody occupations in the world -- and one of the most ignored. Under an Indian military rule that, at half a million strong, exceeds the total number of US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, freedom…
- Things that Can and Cannot Be Said: Essays and Conversations
co-authored-essay-and-conversation · 2016
In this rich dialogue on surveillance, empire, and power, Roy and Cusack describe meeting NSA whistleblower Ed Snowden in Moscow.
Other (2)
- The Shape of the Beast: Conversations with Arundhati Roy
interview-collection · 2008
The Shape Of The Beast Is Our World Laid Bare, With Great Courage, Passion And Eloquence, By A Mind That Has Engaged Unhesitatingly With Its Changing Realities, Often Anticipating The Way Things Have Moved In The Last Decade. In The…
- Walking with the Comrades
reportage · 2011
From the award-winning author of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness and The God of Small Things comes a searing frontline exposé of brutal repression in India In this fiercely reported work of nonfiction, internationally renowned author…
Frequently asked questions about Arundhati Roy
Who is Arundhati Roy?
Arundhati Roy is an Indian author whose career spans fiction, essays, screenwriting, and political activism. She became internationally known after her first novel won the 1997 Booker Prize and later became prominent for socially engaged nonfiction and human-rights advocacy.
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Where was Arundhati Roy born and raised?
She was born in Shillong in northeastern India and grew up mostly in Kerala on India’s southwestern coast.
How did Arundhati Roy begin her career?
She studied architecture in New Delhi, then worked in cinema as an actress and screenwriter. Her screenplay for In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones earned the National Film Award for Best Screenplay.
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What influenced Arundhati Roy’s writing?
Roy has described her multilingual upbringing in Kerala and early reading of Shakespeare and Kipling as formative; she has also cited James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, John Berger, Joyce, and Nabokov as later influences.
What awards has Arundhati Roy won, and what is her legacy?
She won the 1997 Booker Prize for The God of Small Things—the first Indian winner—and the 2004 Sydney Peace Prize for human-rights campaigning and advocacy of nonviolence. Her legacy joins innovative literary writing with sustained public engagement on social, economic, and environmental justice.
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