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Indian author and political activist whose debut novel 'The God of Small Things' (1997) won the Booker Prize and became an international bestseller, exploring caste, forbidden love, and postcolonial Kerala with lyrical, devastating prose. Her second novel, 'The Ministry of Utmost Happiness' (2017), addresses the broader canvas of modern India. Between the two novels, she became one of India's most prominent public intellectuals, writing extensively against nuclear weapons, large dams, corporate globalization, Hindu nationalism, and caste oppression. Her nonfiction has made her as famous — and as controversial — as her fiction.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica