Rohinton Mistry

Rohinton Mistry (b. 1952) was born in Bombay and immigrated to Canada in 1975. He began his writing career there.

Rohinton Mistry’s works are usually set in simple middle-class Parsi households. The characters, their stories about individual dreams and family relationships, are rooted in reality, as is Mistry’s prose.

He concentrates on telling the story in the good old way, instead of blowing the reader away with language and wordplay.

Rohinton Mistry won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the WH Smith Literary Award in 1991.

Works

• Tales from Firozsha Baag
• Such a Long Journey
• A Fine Balance
• Family Matters