Jerry Pinto

Jerry Pinto is the author of The Education of Yuri (2022), Murder in Mahim (2017) and Em and the Big Hoom (2012; winner of the Hindu Prize and the Crossword Book Award), and the non-fiction book Helen: The Life and Times of an H-Bomb (2006; winner of the National Award for the Best Book on Cinema). His other books include Asylum and Other Poems, Surviving Women, A Bear for Felicia, Monster Garden, When Crows Are White and, as editor, A Book of Light: When a Loved One Has a Different Mind, Reflected in Water: Writings on Goa, The Greatest Show on Earth: Writings on Bollywood, Bombay, Meri Jaan: Writings on Mumbai (with Naresh Fernandes) and Confronting Love: Poems (with Arundhathi Subramaniam). He has translated (from Marathi) Daya Pawar’s classic autobiography Baluta, and the memoirs I Want to Destroy Myself (Mala Udhvasta Vhachay) by Malika Amar Shaikh, I, the Salt Doll (Mee Mithaachi Baahuli) by Vandana Mishra, and (from Hindi) I Have Not Seen Mandu (Maine Mandu Nahi Dekha) by Swadesh Deepak. Jerry Pinto teaches journalism at the Social Communications Media department of the Sophia Polytechnic in Mumbai and is on the board of the People’s Free Reading Room and Library and SPARROW, a woman’s archive. In 2016, Jerry Pinto was awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize and the Sahitya Akademi Award.

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