Rohinton Mistry – Indian-Canadian novelist, author of Such a Long Journey and A Fine Balance, winner of the Giller Prize and Canadian Library Association Award. His fiction blends Bombay’s bustling life with compassion, psychological depth, and social critique, giving voice to the Parsi diaspora.
🌏 Born in Bombay, he emigrated to Canada in 1975. 📚 Worked at a bank, writing in the evenings after work. 🏆 His debut novel was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. 📰 A Fine Balance gained huge popularity after being chosen for Oprah’s Book Club. 🎭 His novels read like political dramas with touches of tragicomedy. 🌿 He captures the struggles of ordinary people in a vast metropolis. 🎓 Studied English and Philosophy at the University of Toronto. 📖 Critics compare him to Dickens for scope and humanism. 💬 He often stresses that his priority is “humanity, not ideology.” 🔥 Remarkably, he has been shortlisted for the Booker three times. 😄 Funny note: when he won his first award, old colleagues joked he’d “thrown the bank’s balance off for literature.”