Jerry Pinto is an acclaimed Mumbai-based Indian writer, poet, journalist, editor and translator. His first novel, Em and the Big Hoom (2012), won the Sahitya Akademi Award (2016), the Windham-Campbell Prize and the Crossword Book Award. His biography Helen: The Life and Times of an H-Bomb received the National Film Award for Best Book on Cinema. His other notable works include Murder in Mahim and The Education of Yuri. He has also translated several important Marathi and Hindi literary works into English.