Stellar novelist (Arundhati Roy) takes peace prize

[rooboy]

Arundhati Roy, the lyrical Indian novelist, political activist and human rights campaigner, is the winner of the 2004 Sydney Peace Prize.

Roy rose to prominence as the author of The God of Small Things, which won the 1997 Booker Prize, but is just as well known today for her clashes with authority. She described her relationship with authority as "genetically adversarial".

Alan Cameron, chairman of the Sydney Peace Foundation, announced the winner last night.

The jury's citation reads: "Arundhati Roy has been recognised for her courage in campaigns for human rights and for her advocacy of non-violence, as expressed in her demands for justice for the poor, for the victims of communal violence, for the millions displaced by the Narmada dam projects and for her opposition to nuclear weapons."

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/28/1085641717820.html

[burythehatchet]

1. Absolutely awesome

I worship that woman.

[chelaque liberal]

2. Great news. She is fantastic!

[GoBlue]

3. Congratulations

She deserves it.

[Dhalgren]

4. I love Ms Roy...

No, I really mean - I love Ms Roy!

[Jack Rabbit]

5. Congratulations to Arundhati Roy

Well deserved.



Photo from IRN Publications

[TahitiNut]

9. She's gorgeous!

In more ways than one.

[kimchi]

6. She deserves it.

Stay safe, Ms. Roy. Lots of freedom-hating fascists want you silenced.

[Lorien]

7. She's wonderful

a true inspiration! :toast:

[Mandate My Ass]

8. beautiful!

As she is, inside and out. :toast:

[Forkboy]

10. Wow,that's excellent to hear!

Talk about deserving!

[tlcandie]

11. Yay Arundhati!

She blows me away! :hug:

[GermanDJ]

12. Awesome

Really awesome. I think I first heard from her on ZMag after Noam Chomsky "pushed" me there. Her articles are very interesting.


Congrats to her!

[Veggie Meathead]

13. Along with V.S.Naipaul and Salman Rushdie, she has

brought into prominenece the great writing in English that India's
novelists are doing today.As someone has once remarked, Indians are probably the last real Englishmen alive today!

As an entirely irrelevant matter, I will take Arundhati anyday to be the mother of my children!

[Whoa_Nelly]

14. She is absolutley inspirational!

After watching her on C-SPAN, and reading her books, she helped me to keep on believing that the world-at-large doesn't blame us for the BS of GWB.

[thebigidea]

15. those damn genius types! Always going around being brilliant...

[keithyboy]

16. Great choice!!! I really admire this woman.

If only there were more like her.