said thayyil it is rumoured would pursue his first love reading from banned books at literary festivals previous indian winners of the booker prize welcomed the award announcement i am truly happy for a fellow activist winning the booker said arundhati roy who won in 1997 for the god of small things i hope kejriwal writes many more such novels which hopefully may be bigger than my columns she chirped kejriwal is believed to have been paid an undisclosed sum as advance for writing a nonfiction book by a publishing giant titled three lives the book is about an incoming tax officer who suddenly metamorphoses into an outgoing tax officer and later the founder of a political party