Salt Lake City ? One of Canada’s most celebrated writers canceled a book tour after complaining of racial profiling at U.S. airports.

Novelist Rohinton Mistry, a native of India living in Canada, canceled midway through his U.S. book tour, citing the “unbearable” humiliation of being searched at U.S. airports.

Mistry canceled stops in Salt Lake City, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Iowa City, Iowa, and Madison, Wis., according to a Saturday report in The Globe and Mail, one of Canada’s two national daily papers.

“As a person of color he was stopped repeatedly and rudely at each airport along the way to the point where the humiliation to him and his wife (with whom he has been traveling) has become unbearable,” said a statement from Mistry’s publicist.

Canada considers some U.S. anti-terrorism policies discriminatory. It has objected to U.S. border officials’ taking photographs and fingerprints of Canadian citizens born in Middle Eastern and Muslim countries.

Mistry is a winner of the Kiriyama Prize, honoring books that promote understanding of Pacific Rim nations, for “Family Matters,” a novel set in Bombay and featuring an ailing patriarch whose children debate over how to care for him.