Varun Grover is a screenplay writer, stand-up comedian and short-fiction writer based in Mumbai, India. ‘Masaan’ (2015), his debut screenplay, played in the section Un Certain Regard at 68th Cannes Film Festival and won the FIPRESCI Jury prize. His first short story collection in Hindi, Paperchor, was published by Ektara’s Jugnoo Imprint in 2019.