2022 St. Louis Literary Award Winner Arundhati Roy

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).