Rohinton Mistry shortlisted for Man Booker prize

Indian-origin novelist Rohinton Mistry is among 13 authors shortlisted for the prestigious $96,070 Man Booker International Prize, where strangely British thriller writer John Le Carre withdrew his name.

59-year-old Canada-based Mistry, who was born in Mumbai and graduated from Bombay University, is the author of three novels — Such a Long Journey (1991), A Fine Balance (1996) and Family Matters (2002) - each of which has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction. Mistry’s works have been widely praised and his novel Such a Long Journey has won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Governor General’s Award.