Delighted Rohinton Mistry told media, “I am delighted with the news. It is, needless to say, an honour to join the list of Neustadt laureates. But it is equally so to be among the many nominees for the prize – a quick glance will reveal as much, whether one looks at the 2012 authors or the lists for previous years.”
1987 Penguin Books Canada published collection of Mistry‘s 11 short stories, “Tales from Firozsha Baag” which received rave reviews.
Rohinton Mistry’s second novel ‘Such a Long Journey’ won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Governor General’s Award in 1991.
His third novel ‘A Fine Balance’ won the Scotiabank Giller Prize and was chosen for Oprah’s Book Club in 2001.
Mistry’s fourth novel ‘Family Matters’ won the Timothy Findley Award from the Writers’ Trust of Canada.
Three of his novels have also been nominated for the Man Booker Prize.
Citing the reason, one of the Jury member Samrat Upadhyay told, “Mistry writes with great passion, and his body of work shows the most compassionate and astute observations of the human condition, making him one of the most exciting and important contemporary novelists writing in the English language.”
