Pankaj Mishra’s latest book, The Age of Anger: A History of the Present was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2017 and foretold the growing epidemic of malice that’s now spreading around the globe. In 2014 he received Yale University’s Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction, and in 2012 he became the first non-Western writer to win Germany’s prestigious Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding for his book From The Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia.

Mishra was born in Jhansi, India, and educated at the University of Allahabad and Jawaharlal Nehru University. In 1992, he moved to a village in Himachal Pradesh and began to write. He is the author of several prize-winning books and is a columnist for Bloomberg Viewand frequent contributor to the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, the Guardian, and the London Review of Books.

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