Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy Suzanna Arundhati Roy (* 24. listopadu 1961, Šilaung, Méghálaj, Indie) je spisovatelka (píšící v angličtině) a aktivistka, která v roce 1997 vyhrála cenu Booker Prize (za novelu The God of Small Things, a v roce 2002 cenu "Cultural Freedom Prize" v Lannan. Je také autorkou dvou scénářů a množství sbírek esejí. Roy je především známá aktivistka bojující za prosazení sociální i ekonomické spravedlnosti.

Život

Arundhati Roy se narodila ve městě Šilaung, indickém státě Méghálaj, kéralské matce z církve Syrští křesťané Mary Roy, která byla aktivistkou v hnutí za práva žen, a bengálskému otci, pěstiteli čaje.

Dětství strávila v Aymanamu v Kérale a do školy chodila nejprve v Kottayamu a poté do Lawrence School Lovedale, v Tamilnádu. Poté studovala architekturu na School of Planning and Architecture v Novém Dillí, kde potkala svého prvního manžela, architekta Gerarda da Cunha.

Svého druhého manžela, filmaře Pradipa Krishena Roy potkala v roce 1984 a zahrála si i venkovskou dívku v jeho ceněném filmu Massey Sahib. Dokud nezačala být finančně nezávislá díky úspěchu jejího románu The God of Small Things, vyzkoušela mnoho nejrůznějších zaměstnání, včetně vedení hodin aerobiku v pětihvězdičkovém hotelu v Novém Dillí. +more Roy je sestřenicí známé indické celebrity Prannoye Roye, které vede významnou mediální skupinu NDTV, a žije v Novém Dillí.

Kariéra

Práce

Na počátku své kariéry Roy pracovala pro televizi a točila filmy. Napsala scénáře k In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones (1989), filmu založenému na jejích zážitcích coby studentky architektury, režírovaném jejím současným manželem a k Electric Moon (1992); v obou též hrála. +more Roy přitáhla pozornost v roce 1994, kdy kritizovala film Bandit Queen Shekhara Kapura, popisující život banditky Phoolan Devi.

Bibliografie

Knihy

The God of Small Things. Flamingo, 1997. +more . * The End of Imagination. Kottayam: D. C. Books, 1998. . * The Cost of Living. Flamingo, 1999. . Contains the essays "The Greater Common Good" and "The End of Imagination. " * The Greater Common Good. Bombay: India Book Distributor, 1999. . * The Algebra of Infinite Justice. Flamingo, 2002. . Collection of essays: "The End of Imagination," "The Greater Common Good," "Power Politics", "The Ladies Have Feelings, So. ," "The Algebra of Infinite Justice," "War is Peace," "Democracy," "War Talk", and "Come September. " * Power Politics. Cambridge: South End Press, 2002. . * War Talk. Cambridge: South End Press, 2003. . * Foreword to Noam Chomsky, For Reasons of State. 2003. . * An Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire. Consortium, 2004. . * Public Power in the Age of Empire Seven Stories Press, 2004. . * The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy. Interviews by David Barsamian. Cambridge: South End Press, 2004. . * Introduction to 13 December, a Reader: The Strange Case of the Attack on the Indian Parliament. New Delhi, New York: Penguin, 2006. . * The Shape of the Beast: Conversations with Arundhati Roy. New Delhi: Penguin, Viking, 2008. .

Knihy a články o Arundhati Roy

"The Politics of Design," in

Reference

Externí odkazy

Biografické

[url=http://www. litencyc. +morecom/php/speople. php. rec=true&UID=5928]Literary Encyclopedia[/url] (in-progress) * [url=https://web. archive. org/web/20050907203309/http://www. sawnet. org/books/authors. php. Roy+Arundhati]SAWNET biography[/url] * [url=https://web. archive. org/web/20070928095039/http://www. chitram. org/mallu/ar. htm]Bibliography[/url].

Dílo, projevy

[url=https://web. archive. +moreorg/web/20060629021718/http://www. weroy. org/]We[/url] 'We,' documentary featuring the works of Arundhati Roy * [url=https://web. archive. org/web/20100728082504/http://nmazca. com/verba/roy. htm]Come September[/url] Transcript of speech on 18 September 2002 and conversation with Howard Zinn * [url=http://www. democracynow. org/2006/5/23/arundhati_roy_on_india_iraq_u]Arundhati Roy on India, Iraq, U. S. Empire and Dissent - interview on Democracy Now. [/url] * [url=https://web. archive. org/web/20060928203747/http://www. greenleft. org. au/back/2004/569/569p12. htm]'We have to become the global resistance'[/url] (Abridged version of speech at the World Social Forum in Mumbai, 16 January 2004) * [url=https://web. archive. org/web/20071115062050/http://www. democracynow. org/static/Arundhati_Trans. shtml]Tide. or Ivory Snow. Public Power in the Age of Empire[/url] (16 August 2004 speech in San Francisco) * ABC Radio National [url=https://web. archive. org/web/20090101071039/http://www. abc. net. au/rn/bigidea/stories/s1232956. htm]transcript of Sydney Peace Prize Lecture[/url] (with audio) [url=https://web. archive. org/web/20081202035956/http://www. tvset. org/roy3. html]or download the speech here[/url] * [url=http://www. globalresearch. ca/index. php. context=viewArticle&code=ROY20050628&articleId=540]'The Most Cowardly War in History'; opening statement at the Iraq tribunal[/url] (Article dated 24 June 2005) * [url=https://web. archive. org/web/20101028032829/http://www. cityweekend. com. cn/shanghai/articles/blogs-shanghai/shanghai-book-club/live-blogging-with-arundhati-roy-andpankaj-mishra-india-in-the-world-arundhati-roy-in-coversation-with-pankaj-mishra/]Podcast of Arundhati Roy and Pankaj Mishra discussing "India in the World" at the Shanghai International Literary Festival[/url].

Ostatní

We, a political documentary about Roy's words. [url=https://web. +morearchive. org/web/20060629021718/http://www. weroy. org/]Available online. [/url] * [url=http://www. asiantribune. com/index. php. q=node/937]Arundhati Roy denounces Indian democracy[/url] by Atul Cowshish * Carreira, Shirley de S. G. A representação da mulher em Shame, de Salman Rushdie, e O deus das pequenas coisas, de Arundathi Roy. In: MONTEIRO, Conceição & LIMA, Tereza M. de O. ed. Rio de Janeiro: Caetés, 2005 * [url=https://web. archive. org/web/20110707174855/http://ascentmagazine. com/articles. aspx. articleID=94&page=read&subpage=past&issueID=09]"In the Valley of the Tigers"[/url]; Interview with Ascent magazine on the Narmada Valley * Ch'ien, Evelyn Nien-Ming, "The Politics of Design" (Weird English. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2004; 154-99). Essay on Roy's language. [url=http://books. google. com/books. id=Fx6o5NXOLoQC&pg=PA154&lpg=PA154&dq=The+Politics+of+Design+roy&source=web&ots=ewjuVIh_5o&sig=yjY5EeQU4PliwhZPOkRnwPLszIs&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA199,M1]Available online. [/url].

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