Arundhati Roy on Writing, Activism, and the Twenty-Year Gap Between Novels
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Interviewed by Hasan Altaf
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An in-depth interview with Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, covering her two-decade gap between novels, her prolific essay-writing on political and social issues (dams, displacement, democracy), and her creative process. Roy discusses her immersion in novel-writing, her activism, and the relationship between her fiction and nonfiction work.
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Twitter / XArundhati Roy on Writing, Activism, and the Twenty-Year Gap Between Novelstheparisreview.orgKey quotes
· 3 pulledI love immersing myself in the universe of a novel for years. There is never a time when I am more alive.
The intervening decades were nonetheless filled with writing: essays on dams, displacement, and democracy.
Most of these essays were compiled in 2019 in My Seditious Heart, which, with footnotes, comes to nearly a thousand pages.
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