Jerry Pinto is a Mumbai-based Indian-English poet, novelist, short story writer, translator, and journalist.
Pinto's works include Helen: The Life and Times of an H-Bomb (2006), (which won the Best Book on Cinema Award at the 54th National Film Awards), Surviving Women (2000), and Asylum and Other Poems (2003). His first novel Em and the Big Hoom was published in 2012. Pinto won the Windham-Campbell prize in 2016 for his fiction. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2016 for his novel Em and the Big Hoom.
Jerry Pinto was born in 1966, is a Roman Catholic of Goan origin, and grew up in Mahim Mumbai. He received a liberal arts degree from Elphinstone College, University of Mumbai, and a law degree from Government Law College, Mumbai.
In 2009, he coauthored Leela: A Portrait with Leela Naidu, a semi-biographical book of anecdotes and photos from Leela Naidu's life. His first novel, Em and the Big Hoom, was published in 2012 and won The Hindu Literary Prize. It was also shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book Prize. He has translated several books from Marathi to English including Cobalt Blue, Baluta, When I Hid My Caste and I, the Salt Doll.
He is now a freelance journalist, writing articles for the Hindustan Times and Live Mint newspapers, as well as The Man and MW (Collected from the public domain)
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