Murzban F. Shroff

Murzban F. Shroff is a Mumbai-based writer. His fiction has appeared in over seventyfive literary journals in the United States and the United Kingdom. He is the recipient of the Bacopa Review Fiction Award and the John Gilgun Fiction Award. He has garnered seven Pushcart Prize nominations, among the most honored short story prizes in the United States. His story collection Breathless in Bombay was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers? Prize in the best debut category from Europe and South Asia, and rated by the Guardian as among the ten best Mumbai books. His novel, Waiting for Jonathan Koshy, was a finalist for the Horatio Nelson Fiction Prize and was published in India, China, and the United States. His India collection of stories, Third Eye Rising, won high praise from five renowned American authors and featured on the Esquire list of Best Books of 2021. Shroff has been a speaker at several international literary festivals and universities.