Bio
Murzban F. Shroff is a Mumbai-based writer. He has published his fiction with over 50 journals in the U.S. and UK. He has won six Pushcart Prize nominations, the highest award for the short story in the U.S, and is the recipient of the John Gilgun Fiction Award. His debut short story collection, Breathless In Bombay, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in the best debut category from Europe and South Asia. It was rated by the Guardian as among the ten best Mumbai books. His recent novel, Waiting For Jonathan Koshy, was a finalist for the Horatio Nelson Fiction Prize and received high praise from two renowned American authors, one a Pulitzer Prize winner, the other a National Book Award Finalist and New York Times book reviewer. He has represented Mumbai at the London Short Story Festival and been invited to speak about his work at UCLA, California State University Monterey Bay, and Berkeley. He is currently at work on a larger-than-life India collection, and the third part in his Mumbai trilogy.