Suzanna Arundhati Roy (Bengali pronunciation: [orundʱoti rae̯]; born 24 November ) [1] is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things (), which won the Booker Prize for Fiction in and became the best-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author. [1] She is also a political activist involved in human rights and environmental causes. [6] She was the winner.