Author Arundhati Roy wins Vaclav Havel Center’s ‘Disturbing the Peace’ award
The writer and political activist speaks for the marginalised and dispossessed people of India, said jury member Salil Tripathi while announcing the award.
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Author Arundhati Roy is among the two winners of the 2024 ‘Disturbing the Peace’ Award by United States-based non-profit organisation Vaclav Havel Center.
Roy will share the award with Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi, who is known mainly for his songs protesting political repression by the Iranian government.
The Vaclav Havel Center (‘VHC’) announced today that the winners of the 2024 ‘Disturbing the Peace’ Award for a Courageous Writer at Risk are Indian writer Arundhati Roy and Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi. pic.twitter.com/Mh5mvzJLq9— Vaclav Havel Center (@havelcenter) August 15, 2024
Jury member Salil Tripathi, announcing the award, said that Roy speaks for the marginalised and dispossessed people of India.
He said that the Booker Prize-winning author speaks for those “whose lands are taken away for big business; who oppose India’s nuclear policies; who speak up for the Dalits; and who fight for their self-determination, making the comfortable afflicted, and offering comfort to the afflicted”.
The Vaclav Havel Center gives the award every year to a “courageous dissenter” and seeks to spotlight global writers fighting for human rights. The award is given in the name of Vaclav Havel, an author and political dissident who went on to become the last president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of the Czech Republic.
It includes a cash prize of...
