Pankaj Mishra

Pankaj Mishra
Mishra in Leipzig, March 2014
Born (1969-02-09) 9 February 1969 (age 55)
Alma materJawaharlal Nehru University
University of Allahabad
Known forThe Romantics
From the Ruins of Empire
Age of Anger
Awards2000 Art Seidenbaum award for Best First Fiction
2013 Crossword Book Award (nonfiction)
2014 Windham–Campbell Literature Prize

Websitepankajmishra.com

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]

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