City Notice – On Arundhati Roy General by The Delhi Walla - November 14, 2012November 14, 20123 Delhi’s most famous mischief-maker. [By Mayank Austen Soofi] Author Arundhati Roy, Delhi’s greatest living badmash, is working on a new novel. The Delhi Walla got the news from the website Publishing Perspectives. Here is the complete text: November 12, 2012. Writer and activist Arundhati Roy announced at the Sharjah International Book Fair that she is in the process of writing a second novel. Roy’s first novel, The God of Small Things, was published in 1997 and won the Booker Prize in 1998. Since then, she has largely steered clear of fiction, focusing on writing non-fiction and on political activism. “The book took me over and even if I had wanted to escape from it, I couldn’t,” Roy said of writing her first novel. “Fiction is a lonely business and writing a book is like being in jail.” Aside from saying that she was working on something new, the author offered no insights on the project. “I have never been particularly ambitious,” said Roy, as she discussed her path as a fiction writer in front of a reportedly packed crowd. “I am not a careerist, I am not trying to get anywhere in a career. It is more important to engage with society, to live it, to have different experiences.” “Writing is in my DNA. When you write you must be accurate about the detail, space and place,” Roy also explained. “I think fishermen must make good writers; they spend so much time keeping quiet and plotting against the fish.” The god of small things 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Share this: Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn Share on Threads (Opens in new window) Threads Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky Like this:Like Loading… Related
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