We hear that Arundhati Roy's new book will be fiction again! After all her work as an activist and essayist, I know a lot of us who cant wait to read what she has to write next.
-Sumita Sheth

Roy returns to fiction after activist decade
By Simon Denyer

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Ten years after winning the Booker Prize for her first novel, and a decade as one of India's leading social and environmental activists, Arundhati Roy is planning a return to fiction.

Roy won the 1997 Booker Prize for her first novel "The God of Small Things" but has since confined herself to non-fiction, championing campaigns at home against large dams and international issues ranging from globalization to the Iraq war.

She has published several collections of essays, including "The Algebra of Infinite Justice" and "An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire".

Now, she says it is time to turn another chapter in her life.

"In those ten years, I, along with many other people, have been part of really unmasking this process of corporate globalization," she said an interview with Reuters.

"But now I feel the fundamental argument has been made, and I would stagnate as a writer if I carried on doing that.

"As a writer I have to go to a different place now. As a person... I want to step off whatever this stage is that I have been given. The argument has been made, the battle remains to be fought -- and that requires a different set of skills."

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