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poet and writer

Jerry Pinto

b. 1966, born Goa, writes in English, writer, novelist, poet, children's writer, translator, journalist

Jerry Pinto is an Indian poet, novelist, short story writer, translator, and journalist based in Mumbai, India. He writes in English. 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.

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Books on record

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Awards

2016Sahitya Akademi Award for Em and The Big Hoom
2013Crossword Book Award

Elsewhere

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Also writing in English