Below is the text of the 2020 Clark Lecture in English Literature instituted by Trinity College, Cambridge. * Thank you for inviting me to deliver this, the Clark Lecture, now in its 152nd year. When I received the invitation, I scrolled down the list of previous speakers, the many “Sirs” and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-02-12 09:49:50 UTC ]
Arundhati Roy, whose books include the Booker Prize-winning The God of Small Things along with The Ministry of Utmost Happiness and My Seditious Heart, spoke with writer Siddhartha Deb in May at Harlem’s Apollo Theater as part of PEN America’s World Voices Festival. The following is adapted from... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-07-10 08:49:18 UTC ]
Novels by Arundhati Roy, George Saunders, Sebastian Barry and Zadie Smith have been longlisted for the £50,000 Man Booker Prize 2017. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-07-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Actor and comedian Kevin Hart has the #3 book in the country with the memoir ‘I Can’t Make This Up.’ Plus Arundhati Roy’s sophomore novel arrives two decades after ‘The God of Small Things,’ and ‘Black Hawk Down’ author Mark Bowden turns his attention to the Vietnam War. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Article accompanying podcast interview with Mia Freedman detailed preparations website said it made to accommodate ‘imposing’ US authorThe US author Roxane Gay has labelled the Australian website Mamamia “cruel and humiliating” for publishing a podcast interview with text that asked whether she... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House has acquired a new novel from Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, for June 2017: her first work of fiction since The God of Small Things (Harper Perennial) won the Booker prize almost 20 years ago. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-10-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things, announced at the Sharjah International Book Fair that she is currently working on a new novel. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2012-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]