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Arundhati Roy is the author of The God of Small Things (1997) and three volumes of nonfiction writing: The Algebra of Infinite Justice (2001), An Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire (2005) and Listening to Grasshoppers (2009). The Shape of the Beast, a collection of her interviews, was published in 2008.

Arundhati Roy lives in New Delhi.