Anuradha Roy

Award-winning Indian writer and publisher, Anuradha Roy, speaks to Gavin Esler at Hay Festival. Her novel An Atlas of Impossible Longing (2008) has been widely translated and was named as one of the 60 most essential books on modern India by World Literature Today. Her third book Sleeping on Jupiter (2015), about the constant human search for another version of existence, was nominated for the Man Booker Prize. Her new book All the Lives We Never Lived is the story of Gayatri, a rebellious artist who abandons her family to follow her primal desire for freedom.