Booker author's snub shakes Indian elite
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article340227.ece
Outspoken critic of government policies Arundhati Roy refuses top
award. But she's going to get it anyway
By Aditi Tandon and Katy Guest
Published: 22 January 2006
As the Booker Prize-winning author of the best-selling novel The God of
Small Things, Arundhati Roy is one of India's most celebrated literary
exports. She has been feted around the world since the book was
published eight years ago, but she has frustrated the literary
establishment by refusing to write any more fiction and turning to
political campaigning.
So when Roy brought out a collection of essays last year entitled The
Algebra of Infinite Justice, the Indian academy of letters jumped to
attention and rushed to honour her with their most prestigious literary
award. The problem for the Sahitya Akademi is that Roy refuses to
accept it. As a vehement anti-government campaigner, she says, she
cannot accept commendation from a body with such strong ties to the
Indian authorities. The problem for Roy (pictured) is that the Akademi
is going to honour her anyway.
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