Pankaj Mishra
Indian essayist and novelist
Pankaj Mishra is an Indian essayist and novelist who has also written travel and history books. He contributes to periodicals such as the New Yorker and the Guardian.
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Indian Born 1969 in Jhansi, India
About Pankaj Mishra
Pankaj Mishra was born in Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, in 1969. In 1992 he moved to the Himalayan village of Mashobra, where he started writing literary essays and reviews for Indian publications. His first book, Butter Chicken in Ludhiana, appeared in 1995 and is a travelogue about small-town India. He went on to write the novel The Romantics, which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum award for first fiction, as well as non-fiction such as An End to Suffering, Temptations of the West and From the Ruins of Empire. Age of Anger is another of his books. Mishra writes for outlets including the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Guardian and the New York Review of Books. In 2014 he won the Windham–Campbell Prize for non-fiction, and in 2024 he was given the Weston International Award.