Meet the author: Arundhati Roy
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The Indian writer presents her literary memoirs in Brussels.
This programme is a co-production of Passa Porta and Bozar.
from kerala to now
After her mother died, Arundhati Roy set out to grasp the feelings she held for the woman she had broken free from at age 18, ‘not because I didn’t love her, but in order to be able to continue to love her’. She describes her life, from her childhood in Kerala, where her single mother founded a school, through the award-winning novels and essays she has written, to the death of ‘Mother Mary’.
fearless voice
In 2023 Arundhati Roy was awarded the prestigious European Essay Prize for her work and in 2024 the PEN Pinter Prize for telling ‘urgent stories of injustice with wit and beauty’. The prize honours writers who speak out forcefully and often under dangerous circumstances – as Roy has been doing for decades, with courage, sharpness and moral clarity.
felle kracht
Roy’s latest book, which combines the grandeur, scope and depth of her novels with the passion, political clarity and warmth of her essays, is an ode to freedom, a tribute to stubborn love and uncompromising fearlessness. Mother Mary Comes To Me describes the complex relationship with the fiery force that shaped Arundhati’s life as a woman, as an activist and as a writer: her mother.
about the author
Arundhati Roy is the author of The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize, was published in more than 40 languages and has sold millions of copies worldwide. Roy has also published several non-fiction works on, among others, justice, politics, climate change and human rights,.
Mother Mary Comes to Me - Arundhati Roy
about the moderator
Catherine Vuylsteke is a writer, journalist, documentary film-maker and lecturer. She studied in Ghent and Shanghai and has reported for De Morgen, De Standaard, Knack and Mo Magazine. She has written several books on international issues.
Organisation: Passa Porta, Bozar
Picture Arundhati Roy © Mayank Austen Soofi
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