WRITER

Arundhati Roy

1961 - Today

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Suzanna Arundhati Roy (born 24 November 1961) is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things (1997), which won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the best-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arundhati Roy has received more than 5,414,000 page views. Her biography is available in 71 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 65 in 2019). Arundhati Roy is the 3,944th most popular writer (down from 3,732nd in 2019), the 488th most popular biography from India (down from 430th in 2019) and the 76th most popular Indian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 5.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.41

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 71

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.62

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Power Politics
Politics and government, Globalization, Politik
2001
The Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire
2004
God of Small Things
dalit, Catholicism, fraternal twins
The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, fraternal twins Esthappen and Rahel fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family. Their lonely, lovely mother, Ammu, (who loves by night the man her children love by day), fled an abusive marriage to live with their blind grandmother, Mammachi (who plays Handel on her violin), their beloved uncle Chacko (Rhodes scholar, pickle baron, radical Marxist, bottom-pincher), and their enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grandaunt). When Chacko's English ex-wife brings their daughter for a Christmas visit, the twins learn that Things Can Change in a Day. That lives can twist into new, ugly shapes, even cease forever, beside their river... --back cover
1997
The Cost of Living
1999
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
2017
CHEQUEBOOK AND THE CRUISE MISSILE: CONVERSATIONS WITH ARUNDHATI ROY
Politics and government, Globalization, Indian authors
2004

Page views of Arundhati Roys by language

Over the past year Arundhati Roy has had the most page views in the with 581,817 views, followed by Hindi (17,626), and French (16,235). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Sanskrit (803.74%), Croatian (224.64%), and Bosnian (214.08%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Arundhati Roy ranks 3,944 out of 7,302. Before her are Elizabeth Strout, James Thurber, William of Apulia, Josefina Pla, Vera Komissarzhevskaya, and John Norman. After her are Yuri Rytkheu, Anton Delvig, Léon-Paul Fargue, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Gloria Fuertes, and Paruyr Sevak.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Arundhati Roy ranks 173. Before her are Mikhail Shishkin, Vladimir Potanin, Steve Holmes, Rob Hall, Janet McTeer, and Chendo. After her are Jaroslav Šilhavý, Rodrigo Chaves Robles, Sergio Scariolo, Sion Sono, Denis Lavant, and Martina Gedeck.

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In India

Among people born in India, Arundhati Roy ranks 488 out of 1,861. Before her are Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889), Mamata Banerjee (1955), Somnath Sharma (1923), Sharad Pawar (1940), Harish-Chandra (1923), and Om Puri (1950). After her are Kuriakose Elias Chavara (1805), Abdul Sattar Edhi (1928), Nutan (1936), Kumaragupta I (400), Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi (1887), and Balaji Baji Rao (1720).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Arundhati Roy ranks 76. Before her are Hansa Jivraj Mehta (1897), Firaq Gorakhpuri (1896), Nagarjun (1911), Bhalchandra Nemade (1938), Faizi (1547), and Mahadev Desai (1892). After her are Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi (1887), Saadat Hasan Manto (1912), Krishan Chander (1914), Nirmal Verma (1929), Balamani Amma (1909), and Raghunath Murmu (1905).

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