Booker prizewinning author Arundhati Roy has said she would be writing a novel after a decade of spearheading public issue campaigns, including the Narmada Dam agitation.
Roy, who won the coveted prize for her novel The God of Small Things, told The Guardian, 'I will be writing a novel. I want to say things where I am not always walking a fine line. In fiction, I will not have to consider what to say or what not.'
Roy, however, said she did not yet know what the book would be about.
The 45-year-old writer said a novel would help her express her thoughts.
'I am very conscious that, from the time The God of Small Things was published 10 years ago, we are in a different world, a different place now, which needs to be written about differently, and I really very much want to do that.'