17. Arundhati Roy

Indian author and intellectual. She has been one of the most important figures of her country’s political as well as intellectual life since she published her very famous novel God of the Small Things, and won many of the most celebrated awards for literature. Later she developed her career as an activist against a one-sided notion of globalization with arguments against the devastations she sees globalization as inflicting on the non-Western world. She has taken a radical opposition stance against the Iraq War and the George W. Bush administration, and has also published a number of strong and important papers criticizing arms policies all over the world. Most of them have now been collected in a book that has also been translated into Turkish under the title Ya Çek Defteri Ya Cruise Füzesi. She brings sophisticated insights to the ideas that she supports or promotes as a woman of letters.