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The Cost of Living and Power Politics was written by Arundhati Roy, a Booker Prize-winning author. With her first book, "The God of Little Things," Arundhati Roy was awarded the Booker Prize in 1997. She is well renowned for both her fiction and non-fiction writing, which includes novels and essays on social, political, and environmental issues in India and elsewhere. "Power Politics" is a book of essays and interviews, while "The Cost of Living" is a compilation of articles.