Rohinton Mistry
Rohinton Mistry ( born July 3, 1952 in Bombay ) is a Canadian writer of Indian origin. Mistry belongs to the ethnic group of the Parsis, the followers of the teachings are of Zoroastrianism. His most famous work is The world balance.
Mistry graduated in 1974, B. A. in mathematics and economics at the University of Bombay. In 1975 he emigrated with his wife to Toronto / Canada, worked in a bank in Toronto and graduated in 1982 BA in English literature and philosophy at the University of Toronto. His first short story One Sunday he published in 1983.
He is the author of three novels, all of which were nominated for the prestigious Man Booker Prize. The first novel "Such a Long Journey " (1991) won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Governer General's Award; After that was released in 1996 " A Fine Balance", dt: " The balance of the world." The novel won the Commonwealth Writers prize, the Giller prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Winifred Holtby Memorial price; finally was " Family Matters " (2002) was nominated for the Man Booker Prize in 2002, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. The novel was awarded the Canadian Authors ' Association Award for Literature and the Timothy Findley Price ( Writers' Trust of Canada). Mistry 2012 was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
Rohinton Mistry lives in Ontario, Canada.
Publications
- German: The world balance: novel, translated by Matthias Müller, Wolfgang Krüger Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-8105-1249-4; . Paperback edition Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3- 596-14583 -X
- German: Squaring of happiness: A Novel. 2002 ISBN 3-8105-1273-7