Jerry Pinto is a poet, author and translator who lives in Mumbai. He has written several books, the most recent of which is a novel, The Education of Yuri and the non-fiction work, Citizen Gallery: The Gandhys of Chemould and the Birth of Modern Art in Bombay both from Speaking Tiger. He has two books of poetry: Asylum and Other Poems and I Want a Poem and Othe Poems, again from Speaking Tiger. He has won the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Windham-Campbell Award from the Beinecke Library, Yale, for his novel, Em and the Big Hoom. He teaches journalism at the Social Communications Media department of the Sophia Polytechnic and is on the board of MelJol which works in the sphere of child rights and the People`s Free Reading Room & Library.
The Education of Yuri: Coming of Age in Bombay
Of Ghosts, Wars and The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Land, Guns, Caste, Woman: The Memoir of a Lapsed Revolutionary
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