Bookers prize winner jailed for contempt of court

Booker Prize winning novelist Arundhati Roy was convicted of contempt by India’s Supreme Court today and taken to jail to serve a one day sentence.

Roy, whose book, The God of Small Things, won the Booker Prize in 1997, was also fined €45. If she does not pay, she will have to spend three months in prison instead of the symbolic one day sentence.