Cyrus Mistry (writer)

Cyrus Mistry (born 11 March 1956^[1]) is an Indian author and playwright. He won the 2014 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature for Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer.^[2]^[3] He is the brother of author Rohinton Mistry.^[4]

Mistry is from Mumbai.

Mannheim Film Festival.^[6]

His play Doongaji House is "regarded as a seminal work in contemporary Indian theatre in English."

Towers of Silence where they are eaten by vultures.^[2]^[9]

Awards and honors

Sultan Padamsee Award for Doongaji House^[5]
1989
National Award for Best Gujarati Film
, Percy, story, screenplay and dialogue
2005 Crossword Book Award, shortlist, The Radiance of Ashes
2014 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer
2015 Sahitya Akademi Award^[10]

Works

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

References

^ Who's who in India. Guide Publications. 1996. p. 276. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Aditi Malhotra (18 January 2014). "Indian Wins South Asian Prize for Literature". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
^ PTI (18 January 2014). "Cyrus Mistry wins DSC Prize for 2014". The Hindu. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
^ Amrita Madhukalya (17 January 2014). "Parsis walk from outside to take my story forward: Cyrus Mistry". DNA India. Retrieved 19 January 2014.
^ ^a ^b "Active marketing important in publishing: Author Cyrus Mistry". Press Trust of India. Press Trust of India. 12 November 2013. Archived from the original on 19 January 2014. Retrieved 19 January 2014.
^ ^a ^b Shashi Baliga (5 August 2012). "A legacy of silence". The Hindu. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
^ "37th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 March 2016.
^ Tara Sahgal (5 September 2005). "Bombay lost and found". India Today. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
^ Tara Sahgal (17 August 2012). "Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer (review)". Time Out Mumbai. Archived from the original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
^ "Sahithya Academy Award 2015" (PDF). sahitya-akademi.gov.in. Sahitya-Akademi. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.

[1] Who's who in India. Guide Publications. 1996. p. 276. Retrieved 12 August 2018.

[malhotra-2] Aditi Malhotra (18 January 2014). "Indian Wins South Asian Prize for Literature". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 18 January 2014.

[3] PTI (18 January 2014). "Cyrus Mistry wins DSC Prize for 2014". The Hindu. Retrieved 18 January 2014.

[4] Amrita Madhukalya (17 January 2014). "Parsis walk from outside to take my story forward: Cyrus Mistry". DNA India. Retrieved 19 January 2014.

[pti-5] "Active marketing important in publishing: Author Cyrus Mistry". Press Trust of India. Press Trust of India. 12 November 2013. Archived from the original on 19 January 2014. Retrieved 19 January 2014.

[baliga-6] Shashi Baliga (5 August 2012). "A legacy of silence". The Hindu. Retrieved 18 January 2014.

[37thaward-7] "37th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 March 2016.

[8] Tara Sahgal (5 September 2005). "Bombay lost and found". India Today. Retrieved 18 January 2014.

[9] Tara Sahgal (17 August 2012). "Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer (review)". Time Out Mumbai. Archived from the original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 18 January 2014.

[10] "Sahithya Academy Award 2015" (PDF). sahitya-akademi.gov.in. Sahitya-Akademi. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.

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1960–1970	The Guide by R. K. Narayan (1960) The Serpent and the Rope by Raja Rao (1964) The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin by Verrier Elwin (1965) Shadow From Ladakh by Bhabani Bhattacharya (1967) An Artist in Life by Niharranjan Ray (1969)
1971–1980	Morning Face by Mulk Raj Anand (1971) Scholar Extraordinary by Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1975) Jawaharlal Nehru by Sarvepalli Gopal (1976) Azadi by Chaman Nahal (1977) Fire on the Mountain by Anita Desai (1978) Inside the Haveli by Rama Mehta (1979) On the Mother by K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar (1980)
1981–1990	Relationship by Jayanta Mahapatra (1981) The Last Labyrinth by Arun Joshi (1982) Latter-Day Psalms by Nissim Ezekiel (1983) The Keeper of the Dead by Keki N. Daruwalla (1984) Collected Poems by Kamala Das (1985) Rich Like Us by Nayantara Sahgal (1986) Trapfalls In the Sky by Shiv K. Kumar (1987) The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth (1988) The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh (1989) That Long Silence by Shashi Deshpande (1990)
1991–2000	The Trotter-Nama by Allan Sealy (1991) Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra by Ruskin Bond (1992) After Amnesia by G. N. Devy (1993) Serendip by Dom Moraes (1994) Memories of Rain by Sunetra Gupta (1996) Final Solutions and Other Plays by Mahesh Dattani (1998) The Collected Poems by A. K. Ramanujan (1999) Cuckold by Kiran Nagarkar (2000)
2001–2010	Rajaji: A Life by Rajmohan Gandhi (2001) A New World by Amit Chaudhuri (2002) The Perishable Empire by Meenakshi Mukherjee (2003) The Mammaries of the Welfare State by Upamanyu Chatterjee (2004) The Algebra of Infinite Justice by Arundhati Roy (2005) The Sari Shop by Rupa Bajwa (2006) Disorderly Women by Malathi Rao (2007) Mahabharata: An Inquiry into the Human Condition by Chaturvedi Badrinath (2009) The Book of Rachel by Esther David (2010)
2011–2020	India after Gandhi by Ramachandra Guha (2011) These Errors are Correct by Jeet Thayil (2012) Temsula Ao (2013) Trying to Say Goodbye by Adil Jussawalla (2014) Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer by Cyrus Mistry (2015) Em and the Big Hoom by Jerry Pinto (2016) The Black Hill by Mamang Dai (2017) The Blind Lady's Descendants by Anees Salim (2018) An Era of Darkness by Shashi Tharoor (2019) When God is a Traveller by Arundhathi Subramaniam (2020)
2021–present	Things to Leave Behind by Namita Gokhale (2021) All The Lives We Never Lived by Anuradha Roy (2022)