Before an overflow audience of 3,000 people, Arundhati Roy offered her insights on money, war, empire, racism, freedom and democracy. This was followed by a public conversation with prominent progressive historian Howard Zinn.
For introductory remarks to the talk by Roger Normand, click here
For a DVD of the event click here
Arundhati Roy was born in 1959 in Shillong, India. She studied architecture in New Delhi, where she now lives, and has worked as a film designer, actor, and screenplay writer in India.
Roy is the author of the novel The God of Small Things, for which she received the 1997 Booker Prize. The novel, which was published in cloth in 1997 by Random House and in paperback in 1998 by HarperPerennial, has been translated into dozens of languages worldwide.
She has written three non-fiction books: The Cost of Living (Random House/Modern Library) and Power Politics (South End Press), which have been collected under the title The Algebra of Infinite Justice in India (Penguin India) and the United Kingdom (Flamingo), and War Talk (South End Press). War Talk, her latest essay collection, analyzes issues of war and peace, democracy and dissent, and racism and empire.
Arundhati Roy links
Arundhati Roy's acceptance speech for the 2002 Lannan Foundation Prize for Cultural Freedom (pdf 48K)
South End Press
1997 Booker PrizeHoward Zinn links
South End Press
Seven Stories Press
Z Magazine