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Rohinton Mistry (born 3 July 1952) is considered to be one of the foremost authors of Indian heritage writing in English. Residing in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, Mistry is of Indian origin, and belongs to the Parsi Zoroastrian religious minority. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... is the 184th day of the year (185th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1952 (MCMLII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nickname: Location in the Region of Peel, in the Province of Ontario Coordinates: , Country Province Region Peel Incorporation 1853 (village)   1873 (town)   1974 (city) Government  - Mayor Susan Fennell  - Governing Body Brampton City Council (click for members)  - MPs Navdeep Bains, Colleen Beaumier, Ruby Dhalla, Gurbax Malhi  - MPPs Vic Dhillon, Linda Jeffrey... Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Latin: Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Official languages English (de facto) Government Lieutenant-Governor David C. Onley Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament House seats 107 Senate seats 24 Confederation July 1, 1867 (1st) Area... NRI redirects here. ... This article is about the Parsi community. ... Zoroastrianism was adapted from an earlier, polytheistic faith by Zarathushtra (Zoroaster) in Persia very roughly around 1000 BC (although, in the absence of written records, some scholars estimates are as late as 600 BC). ...

Born in Mumbai, India, Mistry immigrated to Canada in 1975, after obtaining an undergraduate degree in Mathematics and Economics, from Bombay University, in 1973. He worked in a bank for a while, before returning to studies, leading up to a degree in English and Philosophy. While attending the University of Toronto he won two Hart House literary prizes (the first to win two),which were published on the Hart House Review, and Canadian Fiction Magazine's annual Contributor's Prize for 1985. Two years later, Penguin Books Canada published his collection of 11 short stories, Tales from Firozsha Baag. This article or section should be merged with Mumbai (Bombay) This article is about the city formerly known as Bombay. ... The University of Mumbai is one of the outstanding universities of India. ... For other uses, see Philosophy (disambiguation). ... The University of Toronto (U of T) is a public research university in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... Hart House Hart House is a student centre at the University of Toronto. ... It has been suggested that Penguin Modern Poets, Penguin Great Ideas be merged into this article or section. ... This article is in need of attention. ...

When his first novel, Such a Long Journey, was published in 1991, 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. It was shortlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize and for the Trillium Award. It has been translated into German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and Japanese, and has been made into the 1998 film Such a Long Journey. The Governor Generals Awards are named in honour of Canadas Governor General, and are presented in a number of fields. ... The Commonwealth Writers Prize was established in 1987. ... This article is about the bookshop chain; for the businessman and politician of that name, see William Henry Smith. ... The Books in Canada First Novel Award has a tumultuous history. ... The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, also known in short as the Booker Prize, is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of either the Commonwealth of Nations or the Republic of Ireland. ... The Trillium Award is given annually by the government of the Province of Ontario and is open to books in any genre: fiction, non-fiction, drama, childrens books, and poetry. ... Swedish (svenska) is a language spoken principally in Sweden, Finland (Finland-Swedish, Swedish: finlandssvenska), Åland and in the coastland of Estonia Swedish is classified as a member of the East section of the Scandinavian languages, a sub-group of the Germanic group of the Indo-European language family. ... Such a Long Journey (1991) is a film based upon the novel Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry. ...

His second novel, A Fine Balance (1995), was selected for Oprah's Book Club in November 2001 and sold hundreds of thousands of additional copies throughout North America. It won the 1995 second annual Giller Prize, and in 1996, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. A Fine Balance is the second book by Rohinton Mistry. ... Oprahs Book Club is a book club segment of the American talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, highlighting books chosen by host Oprah Winfrey. ... This just IN !!!:paris hiltons new dog. ...

In 2002, Mistry cancelled his United States book tour for his novel "Family Matters" (2002) because he and his wife were targeted by security agents at every airport he visited, apparently because Mistry appeared to be Muslim. Mistry reported that on his first flight of the tour, "we were greeted by a ticket agent who cheerfully told us we had been selected randomly for a special security check. Then it began to happen at every single stop, at every single airport. The random process took on a 100 percent certitude." His publisher issued a statement that said, "As a person of color (Mistry) was stopped repeatedly and rudely at each airport along the way—to the point where the humiliation ... had become unbearable." Random redirects here. ... Colored and person of color (or people of color in the plural sense) are terms that were commonly used to describe people who do not have white skin or a Caucasian appearance. ... Etymology: Late Latin humiliatus, past participle of humiliare, from Latin humilis low. ...

His books, thus far, portray diverse facets of Indian socioeconomic life; as well as Parsi Zoroastrian life, customs, and religion. Many of his writings are markedly "Indo-nostalgic", though he pointedly also exposes the seedy and grim side of life, not just the bright and cheery. Indo-Nostalgic writing is a somewhat loosely defined term encompassing writings, in the English language, wherein nostalgia regarding the Indian Subcontinent, typically regarding India, represent a dominant theme or strong undercurrent. ...

His literary papers are housed at the Clara Thomas Archives at York University. York University (French: Université York), located in Toronto, Ontario, is Canadas third-largest university and has produced several of the countrys top leaders in the fields of law, politics, literature, philosophy, journalism, management, meteorological, chemical, and space sciences, and fine arts including film, theatre, jazz and experimental music...

Bibliography

• Tales from Firozsha Baag (1987), also published as Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag (1989)
• Such a Long Journey (1991)
• A Fine Balance (1995)
• Family Matters (2002)

Such a Long Journey (1991) is a novel by Rohinton Mistry. ... A Fine Balance is the second book by Rohinton Mistry. ... Family Matters is the third novel by the critically acclaimed Indian-born author Rohinton Mistry. ...

Awards and recognition

• 1983 First Prize, Hart House Literary Contest: "One Sunday" (short story) (Hart House Review)
• 1984 First Prize, Hart House Literary Contest: "Auspicious Occasion" (short story) (Hart House Review)
• 1985 Annual Contributors' Prize, Canadian Fiction Magazine
• 1991 Booker Prize for Fiction (shortlist): Such a Long Journey
• 1991 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction: Such a Long Journey
• 1992 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Overall Winner, Best Book): Such a Long Journey
• 1992 Books in Canada First Novel Award: Such a Long Journey
• 1995 Giller Prize: A Fine Balance
• 1996 Booker Prize for Fiction (shortlist): A Fine Balance
• 1996 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Overall Winner, Best Book): A Fine Balance
• 1997 Irish Times International Fiction Prize (shortlist): A Fine Balance
• 2002 James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction) (shortlist): Family Matters
• 2002 Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize (joint winner with Pascal Khoo Thwe): Family Matters
• 2002 Booker Prize for Fiction (shortlist): Family Matters

• A Fine Balance was one of the selected books in the 2002 edition of Canada Reads, where it was championed by actor Megan Follows.

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External links

• Rohinton Mistry biographical and critical information by James Proctor
• Biography from the English Department at Emory University
• Faber reading guide for 'A Fine Balance'