Repost: NL Interviews Jerry Pinto
Journalist and author, Jerry Pinto has won Yale University's Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction for Em and the Big Hoom. The award honours recipients for "their literary achievements or potential". This year nine awardees received the $150000 prize in fiction, nonfiction and drama.
Watch him speak to Madhu Trehan about Em and the Big Hoom, the torture of living with his mentally unstable yet wonderful mother, the art of writing, Arundhati Roy and how he used the vicissitudes of his life for writing.
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