Pankaj Mishra

Pankaj Mishra (born 1969) is an Indian essayist, literary critic and writer. His work on the Indian subcontinent, Afghanistan, China and the modern world has appeared in publications including the New York Review of Books, the New Yorker and the Guardian. His works available in German include the novel »Goldschakal« and the essay collections »Lockruf des Westens. Modernes Indien«, »Aus den Ruinen des Empires« and »Das Zeitalter des Zorns«. He received the Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding in 2014 for »Aus den Ruinen des Empires«. In the same year, he was awarded the Windham Campbell Literature Prize; in 2013, he received the Crossword Book Award for Nonfiction.