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Arundhati Roy speaks at the St Louis Literary Award

If i had any advice to give to people who want to write…please try and switch off…you don’t need all this information….you don’t need to know everything about everything, it’s unnatural…you need to know the earth, your neighbours, the birds………I think it’s destroying us…..it’s not a moral judgement it’s just the volume of information we are required to process. It’s so hard to know even what your own thoughts are, what your own language is, what your own voice is, what your own feeling are, are you sure they’re your own feelings…or did you just get it out of Facebook or Instagram.

Arundhati Roy features on the Female Poets Society Instagram Platform

The award ceremony, moderated by Dr. Amber Johnson, was held Thursday, April 28, 2022, at 7:00 p.m. at the Sheldon Concert Hall. Saint Louis University Library Associates honored award-winning writer, Arundhati Roy. Roy is the author of the novel 'The God of Small Things,' which received the 1997 Booker Prize and was listed as a New York Times notable book of the year. Roy’s second novel 'The Ministry of Utmost Happiness' was named to the Man Booker long list in 2017 and was named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Roy has been honored with Lannan Foundation’s Prize for Cultural Freedom (2002); the Sydney Peace Prize (2004); the George Orwell Award from the National Council of Teachers of English (2004); and the Norman Mailer Prize for Distinguished Writing (2011).

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