“Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of of most of the genocide of the twentieth century…” Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy
Indian author

Suzanna Arundhati Roy is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things, which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the biggest-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author. Wikipedia
Born: November 24, 1961 (age 56), Shillong, India
Movies: In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones, Massey Sahib, MORE
Awards: Booker Prize, National Film Award for Best Screenplay, MORE
Spouse: Gerard da Cunha (m. 1977–1981), Pradip Krishen
Parents: Mary Roy, Ranjit Roy