Indian-English writer
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 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 [ 1] Windham-Campbell prize in 2016 for his fiction.[ 2] Sahitya Akademi Award in 2016 for his novel Em and the Big Hoom .
Background
Jerry Pinto is a Roman Catholic of Goan origin, and grew up in Mahim Mumbai .[ 3] Elphinstone College , University of Mumbai , and a law degree from Government Law College, Mumbai .
Career
His 2006 book about actress Helen Jairag Richardson titled The Life and Times of an H-Bomb ,[ 4] National Film Award for Best Book on Cinema in 2007.
His collection of poems, Asylum and Other Poems appeared in 2003. He has also co-edited Confronting Love (2005), a book of contemporary Indian love poetry in English. He returned to magazine journalism as a Consulting Editor at Man's World magazine.[ 5] Time Out Mumbai and Time Out Delhi) to edit their special projects. He is now a freelance journalist , writing articles for the Hindustan Times Live Mint The Man and MW
In 2009, he coauthored Leela: A Portrait with Leela Naidu , a semi-biographical book of anecdotes and photos from Leela Naidu's life. Leela Naidu was continuously listed as one of top ten or top five most beautiful women in the world in the 1950s and 1960s by magazines like Vogue
His first novel, Em and the Big Hoom , was published in 2012, and won The Hindu Literary Prize that year. 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 .[ 6] [ 7]
Books
Surviving Women . Penguin Books, 2000. ISBN 0-14-028715-9 .Bombay, meri jaan: writings on Mumbai , with Naresh Fernandes. Penguin Books, 2003.Asylum and Other Poems . (Poetry in English). Allied Publishers India., 2003. ISBN 81-7764-527-7 Confronting Love, (edited with Arundhathi Subramaniam ) . (Poetry in English). Penguin Books India., 2005. ISBN 0-14-303264-X Helen: The Life and Times of an H-Bomb ISBN 0-14-303124-4 .[ 8] Reflected in Water: Writings on Goa . Penguin Group, 2006. ISBN 0-14-310081-5 .Bollywood Posters , with Sheena Sippy. Thames & Hudson, 2008. ISBN 9780500287767 Leela: A Patchwork Life with Leela Naidu . Penguin Group, 2009. ISBN 9780670999118 Em and the Big Hoom ISBN 8192328023 Phiss Phuss Boom , with Anushka Ravishankar and Sayoni Basu. Illustrated by Vinayak Varma. Duckbill, 2013. ISBN 978-93-83331-08-6 When Crows Are White , 2013. ISBN 9788184778571 Monster Garden . Illustrated by Priya Kuriyan . Duckbill, 2016. ISBN 978-93-83331-26-0 Murder in Mahim , 2017. ISBN 9789385755293 The Education of Yuri .ISBN 9789354472688 Citizen Gallery: The Gandhys of Chemould and the birth of modern art in Bombay ,
Awards and honours
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