Pankaj Mishra | |
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![]() Mishra in Leipzig, March 2014 | |
Born | Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, India | 9 February 1969
Alma mater | Jawaharlal Nehru University University of Allahabad |
Known for | The Romantics From the Ruins of Empire Age of Anger |
Awards | 2000 Art Seidenbaum award for Best First Fiction 2013 Crossword Book Award (nonfiction) 2014 Windham–Campbell Literature Prize |
Website | pankajmishra |
Pankaj Mishra FRSL (born 9 February 1969) is an Indian essayist, novelist, and socialist. His non-fiction works include Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond, along with From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia, and A Great Clamour: Encounters with China and Its Neighbours, and he has published two novels. He is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist, and prolific contributor to other periodicals such as The Guardian, The New York Times, The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. His writings have led to a number of controversies, including disputes with Salil Tripathi, Niall Ferguson and Jordan Peterson. He was awarded the Windham–Campbell Prize for non-fiction in 2014.[1]