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Indian-born Canadian Novelist Rohinton Mistry has won the seventh annual Kiriyama Prize for his book Family Matters, a novel set in Mumbai, and featuring an ailing patriarch whose children debate over how to care for him.
The award is given for books that promote greater understanding of and among the nations of the Pacific Rim and of the South Asian subcontinent.
Sharing the award with Mistry will be Burmese memoir writer Pascal Khoo Thwe.
Family Matters, Mistry's fourth book, was a finalist for the Booker Prize.
Thwe won in the non-fiction category for From the Land of Green Ghosts, the story of his childhood in rural Burma, his years as a guerrilla fighter in the jungle and his eventual journey to England.
From the Land of Green Ghosts is his first book.
The winners share $30,000.
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