Cyrus Mistry (March 11, 1956) is an Indian author and playwright. He won the 2014

DSC Prize for South Asian Literature The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature is an international literary prize awarded annually to writers of any ethnicity or nationality writing about South AsiaNote: South Asia for the purposes of the prize is defined as India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka ...

for '' Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer''. He is the brother of author

Rohinton Mistry Rohinton Mistry (born 1952) is an Indian-born Canadian writer. He has been the recipient of many awards including the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2012. Each of his first three novels were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His ...

. Mistry is from Mumbai. He began writing at a young age as a playwright, but has also worked as a journalist and short-story writer. His first short was published in 1979. He has also written short film scripts and several documentaries. One of his short stories, "Percy", was made into the

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feature film ''Percy'' in 1989; he wrote the screenplay and dialogue. It won the National Award for Best Gujarati Film in 1989, as well as a Critics' Award at the

Mannheim Film Festival The Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival (german: Internationales Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg), often referred to by the German-language initialism IFFMH, is an annual film festival established in 1952 hosted jointly by the cit ...

. His play ''Doongaji House'' is "regarded as a seminal work in contemporary Indian theatre in English." His first novel was ''The Radiance of Ashes'' which was shortlisted for the Crossword Prize (2005). His second novel was ''Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer'' published in 2013, which tells the story of the Khandhias within the

Parsi Parsis () or Parsees are an ethnoreligious group of the Indian subcontinent adhering to Zoroastrianism. They are descended from Persians who migrated to Medieval India during and after the Arab conquest of Iran (part of the early Muslim conq ...

community who carry the bodies of the dead to the

Towers of Silence A ''dakhma'' ( fa, دخمه), also known as a Tower of Silence, is a circular, raised structure built by Zoroastrians for excarnation (that is, the exposure of human corpses to the elements for decomposition), in order to avert contaminat ...

where they are eaten by vultures.

Awards and honors

* Sultan Padamsee Award for ''Doongaji House'' *1989 National Award for Best Gujarati Film, ''Percy'', story, screenplay and dialogue *2005

Crossword Book Award The Crossword Book Award (formerly known as the Crossword Book Award (1998–2003), the Hutch Crossword Book Award (2004–07), the Vodafone Crossword Book Award (2008–10), the Economist Crossword Book Award (2011–13), Raymond & Crossword Bo ...

, shortlist, ''The Radiance of Ashes'' *2014

, '' Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer'' *2015

Sahitya Akademi Award The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honour in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 22 languages of the ...

Works

*''The Radiance of Ashes'' *'' Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer'' *''Passion Flower: Seven Stories of Derangement'' *''The Prospect of Miracles''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mistry, Cyrus Indian male dramatists and playwrights Indian male novelists Indian male journalists 1956 births Living people Indian male screenwriters English-language writers from India Writers from Mumbai Gujarati people 20th-century Indian dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Indian male writers Parsi people from Mumbai Parsi writers