Pankaj Mishra author biography, plus links to books by Pankaj Mishra.

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Pankaj Mishra

Pankaj Mishra is the author of From the Ruins of Empire and several other books. He is a columnist at Bloomberg View and the New York Times Book Review, and writes regularly for The Guardian, the London Review of Books, and The New Yorker. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he lives in London.

This biography was last updated on 02/07/2017.

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