Jerry Pinto
Indian poet and writer · India · On the map · Writers · Born 1966 · age 60
Jerry Pinto is an Indian poet, novelist, short story writer, translator, and journalist based in Mumbai, India. He writes in English.
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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, as well as 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 Literature Prize for Fiction in 2016. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2016 for his novel Em and the Big Hoom.
