Jerry Pinto
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 (2006), which won the Best Book on Cinema Award at the 54th National Film Awards, Surviving Women (2000) and Asylum and Other Poems (2003).Jerry Pinto is a Roman Catholic of Goan origin, and grew up in Mahim Mumbai.His first novel, Em and the Big Hoom, was published in 2012, and won The Hindu Literary Prize that year.He has translated several books from Marathi to English including Cobalt Blue, Baluta, When I Hid My Caste and I, the Salt Doll.