The Georgia Straight proudly sponsors Arundhati Roy in Vancouver

by The Georgia Straight Staff on March 25th, 2014 at 1:04 PM

Author and Booker Prize-winning novelist Arundhati Roy will make her first Vancouver appearance April 1 at 8 p.m. The event presented by the Indian Summer Arts Society takes place at St. Andrew’s-Wesley United Church (1012 Nelson Street).

Roy will read from a range of her works and will speak about her journey in writing and activism. Roy won the Booker Prize in 1997 for The God of Small Things. In 2004, she won the Sydney Peace Prize, and in 2011, the Normal Mailer Prize for Distinguised Writing.

The Indian Summer Arts Society is a Vancouver-based non-profit organization dedicated to promoting artists of South Asian origin in the performing, visual, literary, culinary, and folk arts. The organization also produces the annual Indian Summer Festival.

Tickets to Arundhati Roy in Vancouver are $20 to $25 and available for purchase online in advance.