Pankaj Mishra

Quick Facts

Full Name	Pankaj Mishra
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Feb 9, 1969(1969-02-09)
Age	55
Birthplace	Jhansi
Country	India
Birth City	Uttar Pradesh
Horoscope	Aquarius

Pankaj Mishra Biography

Pankaj Mishra is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on February 9, 1969 in Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, India. Pankaj Mishra (born 1969) is an Indian novelist and essayist. He was awarded his 2014 Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction.

In 2011, when Mishra was accused by Niall Ferguson of racism in the review of Ferguson’s publication Civilisation: The West and the Rest in the London Review of Books, Ferguson threatened to take legal action for the libel.

In an article published on March 19, 2018 in the New York Review of Books titled “Jordan Peterson & Fascistic Mysticism,” Mishra came under fire for disparaging racial comments aimed at a friend of clinical psychologist and best-selling author Jordan Peterson. Mishra wrote that Peterson’s friendship with Charles Joseph, a native member of the coastal Pacific Kwakwaka’wakw tribe in Canada, “may seem the latest in a long line of eggheads pretentiously but harmlessly romancing the noble savage.” Mishra did not receive public backlash from his employers, to the surprise of many readers, and has remained silent on the article. Peterson’s fiery response via Twitter went viral, revealing a political double-standard concerning even grievous matters including racial epithets.

He was a The Visiting Fellow in 2007-08 within the Department of English, University College London, UK. He was made to be a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2008. Then, in November of 2012 Foreign Policy magazine named him among the most influential global thinkers. In February of 2015, Prospect has nominated him for the list of 50 world Thinkers.

Pankaj Mishra Net Worth

Pankaj Mishra is one of the richest Novelist from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Pankaj Mishra 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Since 1992 Mishra was relocated in 1992 to Mashobra which is an Himalayan village, from where he began contributing reviews and essays on literature in The Indian Review of Books, The India Magazine, as well as the daily The Pioneer. His first novel, Butter Chicken in Ludhiana Journeys through Small Town India (1995) was a travelogue that explained the cultural and social shifts in India within an era of increasing globalization. The novel he wrote, The Romantics (2000), the ironic story of people seeking fulfillment in a different culture that their own novel, was published in 11 European languages. It also won an award from the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum award for his first novel. The novel, with a few autobiographical elements is the historical bildungsroman. The story starts with the 19-year-old protagonist Samar moving to Varanasi, the capital city. Varanasi after escaping Allahabad. A significant portion of the novel, and even its conclusion, takes place in Varanasi. Gradually, Samar realizes that the city is a source of mystery. In the pursuit of knowledge, Samar moves from place to place, however in the final section, Samar returns to the city one final time. This is how the story is concluded where it started. The work An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World (2004) is a mix of memoir along with history, philosophy, and memoir while trying to discover the Buddha’s significance to our times. The book Temptations of the West How to Be Modern within India, Pakistan and Beyond (2006) is a memoir of Mishra’s trips across Kashmir, Bollywood, Afghanistan, Tibet, Nepal, as well as other parts of South as well as Central Asia. The book by Mishra From the Ruins of Empire (2012) explores the issue about “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.”

Mishra’s collection of writings about India, India in Mind was published in the year 2005. His writings were anthologised with The Picador Book of Journeys (2000), The Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature (2004), Away: The Indian Writer as Expatriate (2004) in addition to A History of Indian Literature in English (2003) and numerous other publications. He has also introduced updated editions of the novel by Rudyard Kipling Kim (Modern Library), E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India (Penguin Classics), J. G. Farrell’s The Siege of Krishnapur (NYRB Classics) and Gandhi’s The Story of My Experiments with Truth (Penguin) and R. K. Narayan’s The Ramayana (Penguin Classics). He also published two books of V.S. Naipaul’s writings, The Writer and the World and Literary Occasions.

In March 2014, Yale University awarded Mishra the Windham–Campbell Literature Prize.

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Pankaj Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in India. Pankaj Mishra celebrates birthday on February 9 of every year.