Arundhati Roy has won this years (2004) Sydney Peace Prize.

Roy is also a well known writer/peace activist. One of her first essays was in response to India's testing of nuclear weapons in Pokhran, Rajasthan. The essay, titled The End of Imagination, is a critique against the Indian government's nuclear policies. It was published in her collection "The Cost of Living," in which she also begins her crusade against India's massive hydroelectric dam project. Since that time she has devoted herself solely to non-fiction and politics, publishing two more collections of essays as well as working for humanist causes.

Links:

• Roy's speech on accepting the Sydney Peace Prize
• More info on A. Roy @ wikipedia.org
• All her articles from OutlookIndia.com
  
• All her articles from Guardian Unlimited
  
  MP3 downloads:
  - Radio Interview Prior To Peace Prize Acceptance Spech
  
• Arundhati Roy's Peace Prize Acceptance Speech
  
• Arundhati Roy Reading From "The God Of Small Things"
  
  Ebook Downloads I collected all the articles she wrote for "Outlook India" during August '98 and April 2003 and converted them to a handy book-style pdf file. ROY (application/pdf, 941 KB)