Eugene Correia wrote: Rohinton Mistry, the Indo-Canadian writer, who was born in Mumbai, has been declared the winner of the 2012 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, awarded every two years. He lives in Brampton.
Mistry has Goan characters in his books. His latest book, Scream, was published in 2008. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Eugene, While I have not read any of Mistry's books, I admire him for another reason. Well here is the reason, straight from Wikipedia: "His third book, and second novel, A Fine Balance (1995), won the second annual Giller Prize in 1995, and in 1996, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. It was selected for Oprah's Book Club in November 2001 and sold hundreds of thousands of additional copies throughout North America as a result. It won the 1996 Commonwealth Writers Prize and was shortlisted for the 1996 Booker prize. In 2002, Mistry cancelled his United States book tour for his novel Family Matters (2002) because he and his wife were targeted by security agents at every airport he visited, apparently because Mistry appeared to be Muslim. Mistry reported that on his first flight of the tour, "we were greeted by a ticket agent who cheerfully told us we had been selected randomly for a special security check. Then it began to happen at every single stop, at every single airport. The random process took on a 100 percent certitude." His publisher issued a statement that said, "As a person of color [Mistry] was stopped repeatedly and rudely at each airport along the way—to the point where the humiliation ... had become unbearable."" Mervyn
