Jerry Pinto wins The Hindu Lit Prize for Em and The Big Hoom

New Delhi: Author Jerry Pinto has won The Hindu Literary Prize for his book Em and the Big Hoom. There has been much talk about the book since its publication, it is somewhere between a memoir and fiction.

The other books shortlisted for the prize were, A collection of short stories, Difficult Pleasures, and three novels - Bitter Wormwood, Narcopolis. And Jeet Thayil's Narcopolis was also shortlisted for the Man Booker.

Before the prize was declared the jury had termed the Em and the Big Hoom as an 'unusual' love story.

Em and The Big Hoom is Jerry Pinto\'s first novel published by the Aleph Company.

Pinto is a Mumbai-based writer of poetry, prose and children's fiction. His noted works include, Helen: The Life and Times of an H-Bomb, Surviving Women and Asylum and Other Poems.

Em and The Big Hoom is Pinto's first novel published by the Aleph Company.

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