Why Arundhati Roy Hasn't Written Another Novel

"I found the [Man Booker] shortlist very strange and very surprising. I haven't read any of them apart from Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach and that was more of a novella than a novel. Perhaps the books they picked are actually very good so I'm trying to look on the bright side. Still, I think it's a big problem when they give the prize to a first-time novelist because it's such a prestigious prize to give away. Just look at Arundhati Roy and The God of Small Things - she hasn't written anything since she won the prize; it finished her."

- Mariella Frostrup, former Booker judge and BBC radio presenter.