Jerry Pinto is a poet, writer, editor and translator. His novel Em and the Big Hoom won him The Crossword Prize, the Hindu Lit for Life Award, the Sahitya Akademi Award, and the Windham-Campbell Award for Fiction (2016). Murder in Mahim won the Valley of Words Award for Fiction, and The Education of Yuri has been published to near universal acclaim. Jerry has also written two books of poetry, Asylum and I Want a Poem and Other Poems. His first Konkani translation was Boy, Unloved by Jnanpith Award winner Damodar Mauzo. Jerry has also translated Daya Pawar’s path-breaking autobiography Baluta, Sachin Kundalkar’s debut novel Cobalt Blue, Mallika Amar Sheikh’s I Want To Destroy Myself among several others.