Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer is a 2012 novel written by author and playwright Cyrus Mistry. Set in pre-Independence era of India, the book is about the Parsi community of corpse bearers who carry the dead bodies for burial in Bombay.[1][2] The idea for the novel came to Mistry in 1991, when he was researching the subject for a film producer, who wanted to make a documentary on it by Channel 4. The film could not be made so Mistry decided to write it as a novel.[3][4]
Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature in 2014 and the Sahitya Akademi Award for English in 2015.[3][5]
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^ abSeervai, Shanoor (22 January 2014). "Cyrus Mistry on Parsi Corpse Bearers". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 11 April 2017. Retrieved 30 March 2018.
^Datta, Sravasti (8 October 2014). "Eloquent writer". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 3 December 2014. Retrieved 30 March 2018.
^Mistry, Cyrus (19 December 2015). "Read again: The novel that just won the Sahitya Akademi award for English". Scroll.in. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
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