Mistry Rohinton is an Indian writer, who writes in English.
He received Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2012.
Background
Rohinton Mistry was born on 3 July 1952 in Mumbai. There he spent his childhood and studied at the University of Mumbai. In 1975 he moved to Canada with his wife. In Toronto Rohinton continued his education at the University of Toronto. In Toronto he began his literary career.
Education
While attending the University of Toronto he won two Hart House literary prizes for stories which were published in the Hart House Review, and Canadian Fiction Magazine's.
Career
In 1987 Penguin Books (Canada) published Rohinton's collection of 11 short stories "Tales from Firozsha Baag". It was the first book, that Rohinton published. The book was later published in the United States as "Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag".
His second book, the novel "Such a Long Journey", was published in 1991and it won the Governor General's Award, the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book, and the W.H. Smith/Books in Canada First Novel Award. Later the book was translated into German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and Japanese, and has been made into the 1998 film "Such a Long Journey".
His third book, and second novel, "A Fine Balance" (1995), won the second annual Giller Prize in 1995, and in 1996, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction.
His next novel "Family Matters" Mistry published in 2002.
All his books portray diverse facets of Indian socioeconomic life, Parsi Zoroastrian life, customs, and religion. Many of his writings are markedly "Indo-nostalgic".