Pankaj Mishra

Pankaj Mishra is an Indian essayist and novelist, born in Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, in 1969.

He began publishing essays and reviews in 1992 and is the author of the novel The Romantics (2000), the travel book Butter Chicken in Ludhiana, and works of history and ideas including An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World, Temptations of the West, From the Ruins of Empire, Age of Anger, Bland Fanatics and The World After Gaza.

His essays appear in The Guardian, The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2008 and won the Windham-Campbell Prize for nonfiction in 2014.