Rohinton Mistry is among the foremost of authors of Indian heritage who write in English. Living in Brampton, Ontario in Canada, Rohinton Mistry is a member of the Parsi Zoroastrian religion.

Rohinton Mistry was born in Mumbai, India on July 3, 1952. In 1975, Mistry moved to Canada after he received his degree in economics and mathematics from Bombay University two years earlier. For a while, he worked in a bank, and then he returned to school and earned a degree in philosophy and English. While he was at the University of Toronto, he received two Hart House prizes for stories published in the Hart House Review. In 1985, he also won the Contributor’s Prize of the Canadian Fiction Magazine.

Penguin Books in Canada published Rohinton Mistry’s first novel, a collection of short stories, Tales from Firozsha Baag in 1987. In 1991, Rohinton Mistry’s second novel, Such a Long Journey was published. For that novel, he won the W. H. Smith/Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Commonwealth Writers Prize as well as the Governor General’s Award. The novel was also translated into five different languages including Japanese, Danish, German, Norwegian and Swedish. The film adaptation, Such a Long Journey, was released in 1998.