page_title: Jerry Pinto
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caption_attribution_description: English: Jerry Pinto at kerala literature festival 2018 Kozhikode
context_page_description: Jerry Pinto is a Mumbai-based Indian writer of poetry, prose and children's fiction, as well as a journalist. Pinto writes in English, and his works include, Helen: The Life and Times of an H-Bomb which won the Best Book on Cinema Award at the 54th National Film Awards, Surviving Women and Asylum and Other Poems. 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.
context_section_description: Jerry Pinto  (born 1966) is a Mumbai-based Indian writer of poetry, prose and children's fiction, as well as a journalist. Pinto writes in English, and his 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.
caption: Pinto at Kerala Literature Festival, Kozhikode, February 2018
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