Murzban F Shroff Murzban F Shroff is a Mumbai-based writer. His fiction has appeared in over 50 literary journals in the United States and United Kingdom. He is a recipient of the John Gilgun Fiction Award, and has garnered six Pushcart Prize nominations. His short-story collection Breathless in Bombay was shortlisted for the 2009 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and rated by The Guardian as among the ten best books on Mumbai. His novel Waiting for Jonathan Koshy, published in December 2015, was a finalist for the Horatio Nelson Fiction Prize.