Pankaj Mishra

(India, 1968), one of the most influential writers of fiction and nonfiction of our time, made his international breakthrough with his novel The Romantics, about an Indian student, who in the holy city of Benares is confronted with Western customs and mentality. He reached many readers worldwide with From the Ruins of Empire (2012), a study of the creation and development of an Asean ideology and self-conscience after 1905, losening itself from European colonialism. January 2017 he published Age of Anger: A History of the Present in which Mishra accounts for the resurgence of reactionary and right-wing political movements in the late 2010s. He contributes political and literary essays to the Guardian, the London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books and the New Yorker. He recently published The World After Gaza: A History.