He returned to magazine journalism as a Consulting Editor at Man's World magazine. He has also co-edited Confronting Love (2005), a book of contemporary Indian love poetry in English. His collection of poems, Asylum and Other Poems appeared in 2003. His 2006 book about actress Helen Jairag Richardson titled The Life and Times of an H-Bomb, went on to win the National Film Award for Best Book on Cinema in 2007. He received a liberal arts degree from Elphinstone College, University of Mumbai, and a law degree from Government Law College, Mumbai. Jerry Pinto is a Roman Catholic of Goan origin, and grew up in Mahim Mumbai. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2016 for his novel Em and the Big Hoom.
Pinto won the Windham-Campbell prize in 2016 for his fiction.
His first novel Em and the Big Hoom was published in 2012.
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 (born 1966) is a Mumbai-based Indian-English poet, novelist, short story writer, translator, as well as journalist.
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