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Jerry Pinto (born 1966) is a Mumbai-based Indian-English poet, novelist, short story writer, translator, as well as 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 is a Roman Catholic of Goan origin, and grew up in Mahim Mumbai.[3] He received a liberal arts degree from Elphinstone College, University of Mumbai, and a law degree from Government Law College, Mumbai.
He is the recipient of the Raza Fellowship (2019) for his project titled ‘Persephone by Mehlli Gobhai’.