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Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
Festival 2004    July 22 - 25

Rohinton Mistry

Rohinton Mistry was born in Bombay and immigrated to Canada in 1975 where he was employed in the banking business. He began writing stories in 1983 while attending the University of Toronto, and, soon after, won two Hart House literary prizes and Canadian Fiction Magazine’s Annual Contributor’s Prize for 1985. Two years later he published a collection of short stories, Tales from Firozsha Baag 

In 1991, Rohinton won the Governor General’s Award, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book and the W.H. Smith Books in Canada First Novel Award for Such A Long Journey. His second novel, A Fine Balance, won the Giller Prize in 1995 and his third and latest, Family Matters, was long-listed for the 2002 Booker Prize. 

He has also won the Canada-Australia Literary Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, The Royal Society of Literature’s Winifred Holtby Award and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize for Fiction. A Fine Balance was also an Oprah’s Book Club selection. Rohinton makes his home in Ontario, near Toronto.