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{{infobox person<br />
| name = Jerry Pinto<br />
| image = Jerry Pinto at KLF-2018.jpg<br />
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| caption =Pinto at [[Kerala Literature Festival]], Kozhikode, February 2018<br />
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| nationality = Indian<br />
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| works = [[Em and the Big Hoom]]<br />
| occupation = [[journalist]], [[poet]]<br />
| awards = [[Sahitya Akademi]]<br />
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'''Jerry Pinto''' (born 1966) is a [[Mumbai]]-based [[India]]n 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 [[National Film Award for Best Book on Cinema|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.<ref>[http://alephbookcompany.com/em-and-the-big-hoom.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120702050902/http://alephbookcompany.com/em-and-the-big-hoom.html |date=2 July 2012 }} Em and The Big Hoom|Aleph Book Company website</ref> Pinto won the [[Windham–Campbell Literature Prizes|Windham-Campbell prize]] in 2016 for his fiction.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://windhamcampbell.org/winners |title=Windham-Campbell prize: Winners |access-date=3 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161105181704/http://windhamcampbell.org/winners |archive-date=5 November 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2016 for his novel ''Em and the Big Hoom''.<br />
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==Background==<br />
Jerry Pinto is a [[Roman Catholic]] of [[Goa]]n origin, and grew up in [[Mahim]] [[Mumbai]].<ref>[http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=19921&n_tit=%27You+Cannot+Think+of+Another+Helen...%27+-+Writer+Jerry+Pinto Rediff Interview / Jerry Pinto] 29 March 2006.</ref> He received a liberal arts degree from [[Elphinstone College]], [[University of Mumbai]], and a law degree from Government Law College, [[Mumbai]].<br />
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== Career ==<br />
His 2006 book about actress [[Helen Jairag Richardson]] titled ''The Life and Times of an H-Bomb'',<ref name=des>[http://www.despardes.com/in/ent/2006/28-helen-item-girl.html ‘Helen: The Life and the Times of an H-Bomb’]</ref> went on to win the [[National Film Award for Best Book on Cinema]] in 2007.<br />
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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.<ref>{{cite web|title=Who's behind Man's World? |url=http://mansworldindia.com/newsite/aboutus.asp |publisher=Man’s World |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100405071720/http://mansworldindia.com/newsite/aboutus.asp |archive-date= 5 April 2010 }}</ref> Later, he joined Paprika Media (the publishing house that brings out [[Time Out (company)|Time Out]] Mumbai and Time Out Delhi) to edit their special projects. He is now a freelance [[journalist]], writing articles for the ''[[Hindustan Times]]'' and ''[[Live Mint]]'' newspapers, as well as '' The Man '' and ''MW''<br />
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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 (magazine)|Vogue]]''.<br />
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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]].<br />
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He has translated several books from Marathi to English including ''[[Cobalt Blue (novel)|Cobalt Blue]]'', ''[[Baluta (autobiography)|Baluta]]'', ''When I Hid My Caste'' and ''I, the Salt Doll''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/entertainment/Translation-is-the-noblest-failure-Jerry-Pinto/article14619998.ece |title=Translation is the noblest failure: Jerry Pinto |last=Rosario |first=Kennith |date=September 2, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://scroll.in/article/892521/when-i-hid-my-caste-baburao-baguls-short-stories-were-steeped-in-his-ideologically-vibrant-youth |title='When I Hid My Caste': Baburao Bagul's short stories were steeped in his ideologically vibrant youth |last=Maitreya |first=Yogesh |date=September 1, 2018}}</ref><br />
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== Books ==<br />
* ''Surviving Women''. Penguin Books, 2000. {{ISBN|0-14-028715-9}}.<br />
* ''Bombay, meri jaan: writings on Mumbai'', with Naresh Fernandes. Penguin Books, 2003.<br />
* ''Asylum and Other Poems''. (Poetry in English). Allied Publishers India., 2003. {{ISBN|81-7764-527-7}}<br />
* ''Confronting Love, (edited with [[Arundhathi Subramaniam]] ) ''. (Poetry in English). [[Penguin Books]] India., 2005. {{ISBN|0-14-303264-X}}<br />
* ''[[Helen: The Life and Times of an H-Bomb]]''. New Delhi: Penguin Books India, 2006. {{ISBN|0-14-303124-4}}.<br />
* ''Reflected in Water: Writings on Goa''. Penguin Group, 2006. {{ISBN|0-14-310081-5}}.<br />
* ''Bollywood Posters'', with Sheena Sippy. Thames & Hudson, 2008. {{ISBN|9780500287767}}<br />
* ''Leela: A Patchwork Life'' with [[Leela Naidu]]. Penguin Group, 2009. {{ISBN|9780670999118}}<br />
* ''[[Em and the Big Hoom]]''. Aleph Book Company, 2012. {{ISBN|8192328023}}<br />
* ''Phiss Phuss Boom'', with [[Anushka Ravishankar]] and Sayoni Basu. Illustrated by Vinayak Varma. Duckbill, 2013. {{ISBN|978-93-83331-08-6}}<br />
* ''When Crows Are White'', 2013. {{ISBN|9788184778571}}<br />
* ''Monster Garden'' . Illustrated by [[Priya Kuriyan]]. Duckbill, 2016. {{ISBN|978-93-83331-26-0}}<br />
* ''Murder in Mahim'', 2017. {{ISBN|9789385755293}}<br />
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== Awards and honours ==<br />
* 2007 [[National Film Award for Best Book on Cinema]] for ''[[Helen: The Life and Times of an H-Bomb]]''<br />
* 2012 [[The Hindu Literary Prize]] winner for ''Em and the Big Hoom''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thehindu.com/books/the-hindu-literary-prize-goes-to-jerry-pinto/article4425328.ece |title=The Hindu Literary Prize goes to Jerry Pinto |work=[[The Hindu]] |author=[[Staff writer]] |date= 17 February 2013 |access-date=18 February 2013}}</ref><br />
* 2013 [[Crossword Book Award]] (fiction) for ''Em and the Big Hoom''<ref>{{cite web |title='Popular choice' ruled at book awards |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Popular-choice-ruled-at-book-awards/articleshow/26984253.cms |work=[[The Times of India]] |date=7 December 2013 |access-date=7 December 2013}}</ref><br />
* 2016 [[Windham–Campbell Literature Prizes]] (Fiction) for ''Em and The Big Hoom'' <ref>{{cite web |title=Nine writers win Yale's $150,000 Windham-Campbell Prizes|url=http://news.yale.edu/2016/03/01/nine-writers-win-yale-s-150000-windham-campbell-prizes#.VtWIPjy6wD9.twitter |work=[[Yale News]] |date=1 March 2016 |access-date=1 March 2016}}</ref><br />
* 2016 [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] for ''Em and The Big Hoom''<br />
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== References ==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
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*[http://www.jerrypinto.com Jerry Pinto's Website]<br />
*[http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=14745 About Jerry Pinto and his poems]<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20041013185832/http://www.hindu.com/lr/2004/10/03/stories/2004100300290500.htm Jerry Pinto's book of poems, Asylum], reviewed by [[Ranjit Hoskote]] <br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110606135551/http://www.hindustantimes.com/Search/Search.aspx?q=Jerry%20Pinto&nodate=1 Hindustan Times columns by Jerry Pinto.]<br />
*[http://www.livemint.com/Articles/ByLineArticles.aspx?ByLine=Jerry%20Pinto&type=wa Live Mint: columns by Jerry Pinto]<br />
*[http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-literaryreview/one-per-cent-writing-and-99-per-cent-rewriting/article4278321.ece The Hindu: One per cent writing and 99 per cent rewriting]<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160304185948/http://windhamcampbell.org/2016/winner/jerry-pinto Windham–Campbell Prizes Website]<br />
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