Arundhati Roy (wobadwa Novembala 24, 1961) ndi wolemba mabuku waku India, wochita zachiwonetsero komanso nzika yapadziko lonse lapansi. Adapambana Mphotho ya Booker mu 1997 pabuku lake loyamba la The God of Small Things. Roy anabadwira ku Shillong, Meghalaya kwa mayi wachikhristu waku Keralite waku Syria komanso bambo wachibengali wachihindu, mwaukadaulo wobzala tiyi. Anakhala ubwana wake ku Aymanam, ku Kerala, akusukulu ku Corpus Christi. Anachoka ku Kerala kupita ku Delhi ali ndi zaka 16, ndipo anayamba moyo wopanda pokhala, akukhala m'nyumba yaing'ono yokhala ndi denga la malata m'kati mwa makoma a Feroz Shah Kotla wa ku Delhi ndipo ankapeza ndalama zogulitsa mabotolo opanda kanthu. Kenako anayamba kuphunzira zomangamanga ku Delhi School of Architecture, kumene anakumana ndi mwamuna wake woyamba, katswiri wa zomangamanga Gerard Da Cunha.Mulungu wa Zinthu Zing'onozing'ono ndilo buku lokha lolembedwa ndi Roy. Kuyambira pomwe adapambana Mphotho ya Booker, adangolemba zake pazandale. Izi zikuphatikiza pulojekiti ya Narmada Dam, zida za nyukiliya zaku India, zochita za kampani yachinyengo ya Enron ku India. Iye ndi mutu wa gulu la anti-globalization / alter-globalization movement komanso wotsutsa mwamphamvu za neo-imperialism. Poyankha ku India kuyesa zida za nyukiliya ku Pokhran, Rajasthan, Roy analemba The End of Imagination, kutsutsa kwa Indian. ndondomeko za nyukiliya za boma. Idasindikizidwa m'gulu lake la The Cost of Living, momwe adalimbananso ndi madamu akuluakulu aku India opangira ma hydroelectric m'chigawo chapakati komanso chakumadzulo kwa Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh ndi Gujarat. Kuyambira pamenepo wadzipereka yekha ku nkhani zopanda pake komanso ndale, kusindikiza zolemba zina ziwiri komanso kugwira ntchito pazokhudza anthu. 2004 adatenga nawo gawo mu World Tribunal ku Iraq. Mu Januware 2005 adalandira mphotho ya Sahitya Akademi chifukwa cha zolemba zake, 'Algebra of Infinite Justice', koma adakana kuvomereza.