2022 St. Louis Literary Award

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On Thursday, April 28, 2022, the Saint Louis University Library Associates will honor 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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