アルンダティ ロイ（1961年–）は、インドの小説家、エッセイスト、社会活動家。シロンに生まれ、南部ケララ州で育ち、デリーで建築を学んだ。映画脚本の執筆などを経て、ケララの双子の兄妹とその家族を通し、カーストや宗教、社会の規範に引き裂かれる人々を描いたデビュー長篇『小さきものたちの神』（原題 “The God of Small Things”）で、1997年のブッカー賞を受賞。以後、核兵器、大規模ダム建設、企業による資源開発、カシミール問題などについて発言してきた。森林地帯で毛沢東主義ゲリラと行動を共にし、先住民の暮らしと国家による掃討作戦を取材した『ゲリラと森を行く』（原題 “Walking with the Comrades”）などのノンフィクションも執筆。2004年にシドニー平和賞、2024年にPENピンター賞を受賞した。教育者で女性の権利擁護にも取り組んだ母との葛藤と、自身が作家になるまでをたどる回想録 “Mother Mary Comes to Me”（未邦訳）では、2025年度の全米批評家協会賞自伝部門を受賞した。
Arundhati Roy (born 1961) is an Indian novelist, essayist, and activist. Born in Shillong and raised in Kerala, she studied architecture in Delhi and worked as a screenwriter before publishing fiction. Her debut novel about twins and a family fractured by caste, religion, and social conventions in Kerala, “The God of Small Things,” won the 1997 Booker Prize. She subsequently wrote extensively about nuclear weapons, large dam projects, corporate resource extraction, and Kashmir. Her account of travelling with Maoist guerrillas in India’s forests, “Walking with the Comrades,” examines Indigenous communities’ lives amid resource conflicts and government counterinsurgency operations. She received the Sydney Peace Prize in 2004 and the PEN Pinter Prize in 2024. Her memoir tracing her difficult relationship with her mother, an educator and women’s rights advocate, and her own emergence as a writer, “Mother Mary Comes to Me,” won the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography.
