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Rohinton Mistry, acclaimed Canadian author of Parsi lineage was born in 1952 in Mumbai or what was then called Bombay. After getting a B. A. in Mathematics and Economics from the University of Bombay in 1975, he immigrated to Canada, at the age of 23. After working for a few years in a bank in Canada, he enrolled at the University of Toronto and received a B. A. in English and Philosophy. He began to write short stories for which he won two Hart House literary prizes and Canadian Fiction Magazine's annual Contributor's Prize in 1985. In 1987, his collection of short stories titled Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag was published. Such a Long Journey was published in 1991 and it won the Governor General's Award, the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book and the W.H. Smith/Books in Canada, First Novel Award. It was short listed for the prestigious Booker Prize and for the Trillium Award. A Fine Balance was published in 1995 and won the Los Angeles Times Book Award for fiction; the Commonwealth Writer's Prize, Canada's prestigious Giller Prize and was a 1996 Booker Prize finalist. Mistry's most recent novel, Family Matters, also nominated for the Booker Prize, was awarded the Kiriyama Prize for fiction. In 2012 he won the Neustadt International Prize for Literature.