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] He began writing at a young age as a playwright,[5] but has also worked as a journalist and short-story writer.
[6] His play Doongaji House is "regarded as a seminal work in contemporary Indian theatre in English.
[8] His second novel was Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer published in 2013, which tells the story of the Khandhias within the Parsi community who carry the bodies of the dead to the Towers of Silence where they are eaten by vultures.