Rohinton Mistry is the author of a collection of short stores, Tales from Firozsha Baag (1987), and three internationally acclaimed novels.

His first novel, Such a Long Journey (1991), was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and won the Governor General’s Award, the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book, and the SmithBooks/Books in Canada First Novel Award. It was made into an acclaimed feature film in 1998.

A Fine Balance (1995) was winner of the Giller Prize, the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book, the Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize, the Royal Society of Literature’s Winifred Holtby Award, and Denmark’s ALOA Prize. It, too, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, as well as the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and the Prix Femina. In 2002, A Fine Balance was selected for Oprah’s Book Club. 

Family Matters, published in 2002, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. It won the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize for Fiction and the Canadian Authors Association Fiction Award.

The Scream, a story, was published in 2006 in a special limited edition of 150 copies (illustrations by Tony Urquhart), followed by a trade edition in 2006. All proceeds from both editions go to World Literacy of Canada.

Born in Bombay, Rohinton Mistry has lived in Canada since 1975. He was awarded the Trudeau Fellows Prize by the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation in 2004, and was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2010. His work has been published in thirty-one languages.