UArundhati Roy (owazalwa ngoNovemba 24, 1961) ngumbhali wenoveli waseIndiya, umlweli-mkhosi kunye nommi wehlabathi. Uphumelele ibhaso leBooker ngo-1997 kwinoveli yakhe yokuqala ethi UThixo weZinto ezincinci. URoy wazalelwa eShillong, eMeghalaya kunina ongumKristu waseKeralite waseSyria kunye notata waseBengali ongumHindu, ngumsebenzi wokutyala iti. Ubuntwana bakhe wabuchithela eAymanam, eKerala, efunda eCorpus Christi. Wayishiya iKerala waya eDelhi eneminyaka eyi-16, waza waqalisa ukuphila ubomi obungenamakhaya, ehlala kwindlu encinane enophahla lwezinki ngaphakathi kweendonga zeFeroz Shah Kotla yaseDelhi kwaye ephila ngokuthengisa iibhotile ezingenanto. Emva koko waqhubeka nokufunda i-architecture kwi-Delhi School of Architecture, apho wadibana nomyeni wakhe wokuqala, umakhi wezakhiwo uGerard Da Cunha.UThixo wezinto ezincinci yincwadi yodwa ebhalwe nguRoy. Ukusukela oko waphumelela ibhaso leBooker, uye wagxininisa ukubhala kwakhe kwimiba yezopolitiko. Ezi ziquka iprojekthi yeDama laseNarmada, iNuclear Weapons yaseIndiya, imisebenzi ye-Enron yenkampani yamandla eyonakeleyo eIndiya. Uyintloko ye-anti-globalization / alter-globalization movement kunye nomgxeki onamandla we-neo-imperialism.Ekuphenduleni uvavanyo lwaseIndiya lwezixhobo zenyukliya ePokhran, eRajasthan, uRoy wabhala i-End of Imagination, i-critique ye-Indian. imigaqo-nkqubo karhulumente yenyukliya. Yapapashwa kwingqokelela yakhe Iindleko Zokuphila, apho waphinda walwa iiprojekthi zamadama ombane amakhulu aseIndiya kumbindi nakwintshona yeMaharashtra, Madhya Pradesh naseGujarat. Ukususela ngoko uye wazinikela kuphela kwizinto ezingeyonyani kunye nezopolitiko, epapasha iingqokelela ezimbini ezingakumbi zezincoko kunye nokusebenzela izizathu zentlalo. Ngo-2004 wathatha inxaxheba kwiNkundla yeHlabathi yase-Iraq. NgoJanuwari 2005 wawongwa ngembasa yeSahitya Akademi ngokuqokelela kwakhe izincoko, 'IAlgebra yoBulungisa obuNgapheliyo', kodwa akavuma ukuyamkela.