Pankaj Mishra

Pankaj Mishra is a novelist and essayist and, unquestionably, one of the most interesting observers of the contrasts and contradictions between East and West, capable of applying his attentive and erudite gaze to one universe and the other. He received the Palau i Fabre International Essay Prize for his book From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia (published in Spanish by Galaxia Gutenberg, 2015), which also earned him the prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize. His vision on the political and cultural influence of the West and post-colonial processes runs through all his books, from the novel The Romantics (published in Catalan by Empúries and in Spanish by Anagrama in 2000), which launched him onto the international scene, to more recent publications such as Age of Anger: A History of the Present (published in Spanish by Galaxia Gutenberg, 2017), Bland Fanatics: Liberals, Race, and Empire (published in Spanish by Galaxia Gutenberg, 2020), Run and Hide (published in Spanish by Galaxia Gutenberg, 2022) and The World After Gaza (published in Spanish by Galaxia Gutenberg, 2025), his latest book, a reflection on the geopolitical and moral consequences of the current conflict in the Middle East. Mishra is also a regular contributor to The New Yorker Review of Books, The New Yorker and Granta, among others.