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{{Short description|award-winning Indian essayist-novelist}}{{EngvarB|date=August 2014}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Pankaj Mishra
| image = Pankaj Mishra - Dankesrede.jpg
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| caption = Mishra in [[Leipzig]], March 2014
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| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1969}}
| birth_place = [[Jhansi]], Uttar Pradesh, India
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| nationality = India
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| alma_mater = [[Jawaharlal Nehru University]] [[Allahabad University]]
| occupation =
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| 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 {{awd|[[Windham–Campbell Literature Prize]]}}
| website = {{URL|http://pankajmishra.com}}
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'''Pankaj Mishra''' (born 1969) is an Indian essayist and novelist. He is a recipient of the 2014 [[Windham–Campbell Literature Prizes|Windham–Campbell Prize]] for non-fiction.<ref name="yaleaward" />

==Early life and education==
Mishra was born in [[Jhansi]], India. His father was a railway worker and trade unionist after his family had been left impoverished by [[Land reform in India|post-independence land redistribution]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/28/books/pankaj-mishras-new-book-ruins-of-empire.html|title=Pankaj Mishra's New Book, 'Ruins of Empire'|last=Schuessler|first=Jennifer|date=2012-08-27|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-05-21|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/feb/04/society.politics|title=Pankaj Mishra: The East was Red|last=Mishra|first=Pankaj|date=2006-02-04|work=The Guardian|access-date=2019-05-21|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

Mishra graduated with a [[bachelor's degree]] in commerce from [[Allahabad University]] before earning his [[Master of Arts|Master of Arts degree]] in [[English literature]] at the [[Jawaharlal Nehru University]] in New Delhi.<ref name="self">[http://www.pankajmishra.com/about/ Pankaj Mishra website].</ref>

He married Mary Mount, a London book editor, in 2005.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/28/books/pankaj-mishras-new-book-ruins-of-empire.html|title=New Book in Battle Over East vs. West|first=Jennifer|last= Schuessler|newspaper=The New York Times|date=28 August 2012}}</ref>

==Career==
In 1992, Mishra moved to [[Mashobra]], a [[Himalayas|Himalaya]]n village, where he began to contribute literary essays and reviews to ''The Indian Review of Books'', ''The India Magazine'', and the newspaper ''[[The Pioneer (daily)|The Pioneer]]''. His first book, ''Butter Chicken in Ludhiana: Travels in Small Town India'' (1995), was a travelogue that described the social and cultural changes in India in the context of globalization. His novel ''The Romantics'' (2000), an ironic tale of people longing for fulfilment in cultures other than their own, was published in 11 European languages and won the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' [[Art Seidenbaum award for first fiction]]. This novel, with some autobiographical strains, is a ''[[bildungsroman]]''. The narrative begins with the nineteen-year-old protagonist Samar coming to the city of [[Varanasi]] from [[Allahabad]]. A large part of the novel, including its end, is set in Varanasi. Gradually, Samar realizes that the city is a site for mystery.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Mishra|first1=Rajnish|title=Psychogeography and the Kashi Texts|journal=Literaria Linguistica: A Journal of Research in Literature, Linguistics and Language Teaching| issn= 2454-5228|date=2015|volume=1|issue=1|page=63}}</ref>

Mishra's book ''An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World'' (2004) mixes memoir, history, and philosophy while attempting to explore the [[Gautama Buddha|Buddha]]'s relevance to contemporary times. ''Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan and Beyond'' (2006), describes Mishra's travels through [[Kashmir]], [[Bollywood]], Afghanistan, Tibet, Nepal, and other parts of [[South Asia|South]] and Central Asia. Mishra's 2012 book, ''From the Ruins of Empire'', examines the question of "how to find a place of dignity for oneself in this world created by the West, in which the West and its allies in the non-West had reserved the best positions for themselves."<ref>{{cite web | title= In Conversation | author=Hirsh Sawhney | website=The Brooklyn Rail | date= 10 December 2012 | url=http://brooklynrail.org/2012/12/express/a-view-from-the-east-pankaj-mishra-in-conversation-nbsp | access-date=2 August 2013 }}</ref>

Mishra's anthology of writings on India, ''India in Mind'', was published in 2005. His writings have been anthologised in ''The Picador Book of Journeys'' (2000), ''The Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature'' (2004), ''Away: The Indian Writer as Expatriate'' (2004), and ''A History of Indian Literature in English'' (2003), among many other titles. He has introduced new editions of [[Rudyard Kipling]]'s ''[[Kim (novel)|Kim]]'' (Modern Library), [[E. M. Forster]]'s ''[[A Passage to India]]'' (Penguin Classics), [[J. G. Farrell]]'s ''[[The Siege of Krishnapur]]'' (NYRB Classics), [[Gandhi]]'s ''[[The Story of My Experiments with Truth]]'' (Penguin) and [[R. K. Narayan]]'s ''[[The Ramayana (Narayan book)|The Ramayana]]'' (Penguin Classics). He has also introduced two volumes of [[V.S. Naipaul]]'s essays, ''[[The Writer and the World]]'' and ''Literary Occasions''.{{citation needed|date=October 2020}}

Mishra has written literary and political essays for ''[[The New York Times]]'', where he was a Bookends columnist, ''[[The New York Review of Books]]'', ''[[The Guardian]]'', the ''[[London Review of Books]]'', and ''[[The New Yorker]]'', among other publications. He is a columnist for ''[[Bloomberg View]]'' and ''[[The New York Times Book Review]]''. His work has also appeared in ''[[Foreign Affairs]]'', ''[[Foreign Policy]]'', ''[[The Boston Globe]]'', ''Common Knowledge'', the ''[[Financial Times]]'', ''[[Granta]]'', ''[[The Independent]]'', ''[[The New Republic]]'', the ''[[New Statesman]]'', ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', ''[[n+1]]'', ''[[The Nation]]'', ''[[Outlook (Indian magazine)|Outlook]]'', ''[[Poetry (magazine)|Poetry]]'', ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine, ''[[The Times Literary Supplement]]'', ''[[Travel + Leisure]]'', and ''[[The Washington Post]]''. He divides his time between London and India, and is currently working on a novel.<ref name="self"/>

He was the Visiting Fellow for 2007–08 at the Department of English, [[University College London]], UK. He was elected a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Literature]] in 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.rslit.org/content/fellows|title = Royal Society of Literature All Fellows|publisher = Royal Society of Literature|access-date = 10 August 2010|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100305070326/http://www.rslit.org/content/fellows|archive-date = 5 March 2010|df = dmy-all}}</ref> In November 2012, ''[[Foreign Policy]]'' magazine named him one of the top 100 global thinkers.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2012globalthinkers|title=The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers|website=Foreign Policy|date=26 November 2012}}</ref> In February 2015, ''[[Prospect (magazine)|Prospect]]'' nominated him to its list of 50 World Thinkers.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/topics/world-thinkers-2015|title=World Thinkers 2015|website=Prospect}}</ref>

In 2011, [[Niall Ferguson]] threatened to sue Mishra for libel after Mishra published a review of his book ''Civilisation: The West and the Rest'' in the ''[[London Review of Books]]''. Ferguson claimed that Mishra accused him of racism.<ref>{{cite news|first=Paul|last=Harris|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/may/04/niall-ferguson-apologises-gay-keynes|title=Niall Ferguson apologises for anti-gay remarks towards John Maynard Keynes|newspaper=The Observer|date=4 May 2013|access-date=4 May 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Pankaj|last=Mishra|url=http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n21/pankaj-mishra/watch-this-man|title=Watch this man|date=3 November 2011|access-date=3 November 2011}}</ref>

In March 2014, [[Yale University]] awarded Mishra the [[Windham–Campbell Literature Prize]].<ref name="yaleaward">{{cite web|title=Indian Writer Pankaj Mishra wins Yale literary Prize for 2014|url=http://news.biharprabha.com/2014/03/indian-writer-pankaj-mishra-wins-yale-literary-prize-for-2014/|work=IANS|publisher=news.biharprabha.com|date=10 March 2014|access-date=10 March 2014}}</ref>

In an article published on 19 March 2018 in the ''New York Review of Books'' titled "Jordan Peterson & Fascist Mysticism", Mishra wrote that Canadian clinical psychologist and author [[Jordan Peterson]]'s activities with Charles Joseph, a native member of the coastal Pacific [[Kwakwakaʼwakw]] tribe in Canada, "...may seem the latest in a long line of eggheads pretentiously but harmlessly romancing the noble savage."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/03/19/jordan-peterson-and-fascist-mysticism/|title=Jordan Peterson & Fascist Mysticism|first=Pankaj|last=Mishra|date=19 March 2018}}</ref> Peterson perceived Mishra's use of the phrase "romancing the noble savage" as an insult to his friend Joseph, and his response via Twitter, which included a threat of violence to Mishra, went viral.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/23/jordan-peterson-rage-self-help-guru-cathy-newman-twitter |title=Sorry, Jordan Peterson: rage isn’t a great look for a self-help guru |website=The Guardian |first=Nesrine |last=Malik |author-link=Nesrine Malik |date=23 March 2018}}</ref>

==Awards and recognition==
* 2000 [[Art Seidenbaum award]] for Best First Fiction<ref>{{cite web|url=https://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/bookprizes-award/#seidenbaum |title=The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction |website=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref>
* 2013 [[Crossword Book Award]] (nonfiction) for ''From the Ruins of Empire''.<ref>{{cite web |title='Popular choice' ruled at book awards |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Popular-choice-ruled-at-book-awards/articleshow/26984253.cms |work=[[Times of India]] |date=7 December 2013 |access-date=7 December 2013}}</ref>
* 2014 [[Leipzig Book Fair|Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding]] for ''From the Ruins of Empire''<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.deutschland.de/en/topic/politics/germany-europe/book-prize-for-indian-historian |title=Book prize for Indian historian |website=[[DE magazine Deutschland]] |date=26 March 2014}}</ref>
* 2014 [[Windham–Campbell Literature Prize]] (Nonfiction), valued at $150,000 one of the largest prizes in the world of its kind.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://windhamcampbell.org/2014/winner/pankaj-mishra |title=Prize Citation for Pankaj Mishra |publisher=Windham–Campbell Literature Prize |date=7 March 2014 |access-date=8 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170401004951/http://windhamcampbell.org/2014/winner/pankaj-mishra |archive-date=1 April 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* 2014 Premi Internacional D'Assaig [[Josep Palau i Fabre]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://ara.cat/suplements/llegim/Premi_Internacional_d-Assaig_Josep_Palau_i_Fabre-Jose_Maria_Ridao-Pankaj_Mishra_0_1093090963.html |title= José María Ridao guanya el cinquè premi internacional d'assaig Josep Palau i Fabre |website=[[Ara (newspaper)|Ara]]|date=28 February 2014 |language=ca}}</ref>

==Bibliography==
{{Expand list|date=November 2017}}

===Books===
* ''Butter Chicken in Ludhiana: Travels in Small Town India'' (1995)
* ''[[The Romantics (novel)|The Romantics]]'' (2000)
* ''An End to Suffering: the Buddha in the World'' (2004)
* ''India in Mind'', edited by Pankaj Mishra (2005)
* ''Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond'' (2006)
* ''From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia'' (2012)
* ''A Great Clamour: Encounters with China and Its Neighbours'' (2013)
* [[Age of Anger|''Age of Anger: A History of the Present'']] (2017) {{ISBN|9780374274788}}
* ''Bland Fanatics: Liberals, Race, and Empire'' (2020) {{ISBN|9780374293314}}

===Book Chapters===
* Introduction to ''[[Kashmir: The Case for Freedom]]'' (2011)

===Essays and reporting===
* Mishra, Pankaj. "The Invention of the Hindu." Axess Magazine 2 (2004)
* {{cite journal |author=Mishra, Pankaj |author-mask=1 |date=25 November 2013 |title=Land and Blood: The Origins of the Second World War in Asia |department=The Critics. Books |journal=The New Yorker |volume=89 |issue=38 |pages=121–126 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/11/25/land-and-blood }}
* {{cite journal |author=Mishra, Pankaj |author-mask=1 |date=4 August 2014 |title=The Places In Between: The Struggle to Define Indonesia |department=The Critics. Books |journal=The New Yorker |volume=90 |issue=22 |pages=64–69 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/04/places-3 }}
* {{cite journal |author=Mishra, Pankaj |author-mask=1 |date=19 March 2018 |title=Jordan Peterson and Fascist Mysticism |department=NYR Daily |journal=The New York Review of Books |url=http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/03/19/jordan-peterson-and-fascist-mysticism/ }}
* {{cite journal |author=Mishra, Pankaj |author-mask=1 |date=16 July 2020 |title=Anglo-America Loses Its Grip |journal=The London Review of Books|url=https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n14/pankaj-mishra/flailing-states }}
* Mishra, Pankaj (19 November 2020). "Grand Illusions." ''The New York Review of Books''. '''67''' (18): 31-32. Essay.

===Book reviews===
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!|Year
!class='unsortable'|Review article
!class='unsortable'|Work(s) reviewed
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|2007
|{{cite journal |author=Mishra, Pankaj |date=28 June 2007 |title=Impasse in India |journal=The New York Review of Books |volume=54 |issue=11 |pages=48–51}}
|{{cite book |author=Nussbaum, Martha |authorlink=Martha Nussbaum |title=The clash within : democracy, religious violence, and India's future |publisher=Belknap Press/Harvard University Press |year=2007 }}
|}

==References==
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==External links==
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* [http://www.pankajmishra.com Official website]
* [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/video/2012/aug/13/pankaj-mishra-history-lessons-video "Pankaj Mishra: history lessons must not become empire triumphalism – video"] – interview at ''The Guardian''
* [https://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/06/books/review/06GOODHEA.html Philosopher King by Adam Goodheart] – book review in ''The New York Times''
* [http://www.loggernaut.org/interviews/pankajmishra "Pankaj Mishra, Intellectual and Spiritual Vagrant"] – interview by Wendy Cheng at ''[[Loggernaut]]''
* [http://brooklynrail.org/2007/09/express/pankaj-mishra-with-hirsh-sawhney "Pankaj Mishra in conversation with Hirsh Sawhney"] – interview by Hirsh Sawhney at the ''[[Brooklyn Rail]]''
* [http://www.believermag.com/issues/200703/?read=interview_mishra Pankaj Mishra] – interview by Sarah Fay for "The Believer", 2007
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20101028032829/http://www.cityweekend.com.cn/shanghai/articles/blogs-shanghai/shanghai-book-club/live-blogging-with-arundhati-roy-andpankaj-mishra-india-in-the-world-arundhati-roy-in-coversation-with-pankaj-mishra/ Podcast of Pankaj Mishra and Arundhati Roy discussing "India in the World" at the Shanghai International Literary Festival]
* [http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/pankaj-mishra-2013-06-14--2 "Turning the Mirror: A View From the East – A conversation with Pankaj Mishra"], ''Ideas Roadshow'', 2013
*[http://brooklynrail.org/2012/12/express/a-view-from-the-east-pankaj-mishra-in-conversation-nbsp "A View From the East"] – Pankaj Mishra in conversation with Hirsh Sawhney (December 2012), ''Brooklyn Rail''

;Reviews and articles
* [http://www.nybooks.com/contributors/pankaj-mishra/ Pankaj Mishra] at ''[[The New York Review of Books]]''
* [https://www.theguardian.com/profile/pankajmishra Pankaj Mishra] at ''[[The Guardian]]''
* [http://www.newyorker.com/contributors/pankaj-mishra Pankaj Mishra] at ''[[The New Yorker]]''
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080212231907/http://www.outlookindia.com/author.asp?name=Pankaj+Mishra Pankaj Mishra] at ''[[Outlook (Indian magazine)|Outlook]]''
* [https://www.bloomberg.com/view/bios/pankaj-mishra/ Pankaj Mishra] at [[Bloomberg L.P.]]
* Pankaj Mishra at ''The London Review of Books'' [https://www.lrb.co.uk/contributors/pankaj-mishra Pankaj Mishra · LRB]

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