Arundhati Roy announces latest novel - The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Q. Which author announced her latest novel in the first week of Oct 2016?- Published on 17 Oct 16a. Jhumpa Lahiri
b. Taslima Nasreen
c. Arundhati Roy
d. None of the above
ANSWER: Arundhati Roy
Author Arundhati Roy in the first week of Oct 2016 announced her latest novel called “The Ministry of Utmost Happiness.”
- The novel will be published by Hamish Hamilton UK and Penguin India
- Novel will hit stands in June 2017
- It is after 19 years that Roy has released her next novel after Booker prize winning “The God of Small Things.”
- Her debut novel The God of Small Things was first published in 1997. It won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in the same year
- Her debut novel became the biggest selling book by a non-expat author from India
- She is also an activist in the fields of polity, human rights and environmental causes
- She also worked for television and movies
- She wrote screenplays for “In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones” and “Electric Moon.”
- She won the National Film Award for Best Screenplay in 1988 for “In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones.”
