Jerry Pinto

Jerry Pinto
Pinto at Kerala Literature Festival, Kozhikode, February 2018
Born1966 (age 57–58)
NationalityIndian
Occupation(s)journalist, poet
WorksEm and the Big Hoom
AwardsSahitya Akademi

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.[1] Pinto won the Windham-Campbell prize in 2016 for his fiction.[2] He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2016 for his novel Em and the Big Hoom.

  1. ^ [1] Archived 2 July 2012 at the Wayback Machine Em and The Big Hoom|Aleph Book Company website
  2. ^ "Windham-Campbell prize: Winners". Archived from the original on 5 November 2016. Retrieved 3 March 2016.