Pankaj Mishra

Pankaj Mishra (born 1969 ) is an Indian social critic essayist, literary critic and writer. He obtained with his non-fiction book Butter Chicken in Ludhiana, a sociological study of small-town India, and as an essayist for The New York Review of Books International notoriety. Mishra published mainly in English.

Short Biography

Pankaj Mishra was born in 1969 in North India. His love for writing, he discovered as a seventeen year old student, his three novels from that period remain unpublished. His studies in economics at the University of Allahabad ( Uttar Pradesh ) he has completed a Bachelor's degree before earning a Master of Arts in English Literature at the Jawarharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.

After completing his studies Pankaj Mishra moved in 1992 after Mashobra, a small town in the district of Shimla in the north Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, to 2,500 m above sea level. M. Located in the southern foothills of the Himalayas and on the border with Tibet.

At Wellesley College Mishra had in 2001, 2004 and 2006 held a visiting professorship, and 2004/5 he received a scholarship from the New York Public Library for his work for Cullmen Center for Writers and Scholars. In the years 2004 and 2005 Mishra was also a member of the international jury of the launched by the magazine Lettre International Lettre Ulysses Award for literary reportage. Mishra was 2007/8 a guest lecturer at the Faculty of English Literature at University College London. He lives in London and India.

Work as a writer and essayist

Stories and non-fiction

In Mashobra he began writing essays and reviews for The Indian Review of Books, The India Magazine for the newspaper and the pioneer.

1995 his non-fiction book Butter Chicken in Ludhiana has been published Travels in Small Town India, a travel report, which describes the social and cultural changes in India in the context of increasing globalization. A revised edition was published by Picador publisher in the UK and in India in the late summer of 2006.

Looking for an agent Arundhati Roy met Pankaj Mishra, who worked as an editor for Harper Collins. Inspired by her novel The God of Small Things, he sent in June 1996 the manuscript to three British publishers, with the comment, " This is the biggest book since Midnight's Children ."

The Romantics ( The Romantic, 2000), is a novel and an ironic description from the perspective of the protagonist to seek the fulfillment of personal desires in cultures other than their own. Mishra's admiration for Edward Morgan Forster's A Passage to India is not to be overlooked. Autobiographical references to his own early years are probably not accidental; the protagonist comes from northern India, is Brahman and studied in Allahabad. The Romantic has so far been published in eleven European languages ​​and won the Art Silk Tree Award from the Los Angeles Times for a first film.

His 2004 book, published An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World mixed memories, history, philosophy and tries to fathom the Buddha's relevance to life in the modern world. As mentioned earlier works it reached the 100 Best Books of the Year The New York Times. The following year, Mishra published an anthology about writing in India under the title of India in Mind.

In Temptations of the West: How to be Modern in India, Pakistan and Beyond (2006) Mishra describes traveling through Kashmir, Afghanistan, Tibet, Nepal and other parts of South and Central Asia. His book was ( 1 to 7 July 2006) in extracts pre- printed in the Economist.

Narratives of the Indian author have been published in various anthologies, including The Picador Book of Journeys (2000), Away: The Indian Writer as Expatriate (2003) and The Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature ( 2004).

In addition, Pankaj Mishra has published new works by renowned authors: Mahatma Gandhi The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Rudyard Kipling's novel Kim (2004), James Gordon Farrell's Empire trilogy, The Siege of Krishnapur (2004) and EM Forster's A Passage to India (2005). The two volumes of Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul's essays The Writer and the World and Literary Occasions he has 2002/3 written the foreword.

Essays and Columns

Mishra writes literary and political essays, respectively columnist for The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, New Statesman and for other U.S., British and Indian English-language publications. In German, some essays have appeared in the culture magazine Lettre International.

His work is also published in The Boston Globe, Common Knowledge, Financial Times, the British literary magazine Granta and The Independent. These regular releases come in other well-known publications such as the London Review of Books, the American literary journal n 1, the weekly magazine The Nation, the Indian news magazine Outlook, the Chicago Poetry, TIME, The Times Literary Supplement, the Travel Leisure travel magazine from New York City and The Washington Post.

Political activity

Mishra's writings in relation to Hinduism as a religion and its importance in the modern history of the Indian independence movement ( he is Hindu Indian nationality), as the right-wing, Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP ), have found much attention in the Indian public and to some unrest (February 2008) performed. From these circles originating Critics accuse him that he "pro - Muslim audiences in the West white " write for what Mishra replied with " this notion is" optimistic ", even before the September 11 attacks ."

Awards

  • 2000: Los Angeles Times The Art Silk Tree award for first fiction for The Romantics '
  • 2013: Crossword Book Award ( nonfiction ) for From the Ruins of Empire
  • 2014: Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding of Out of the ruins of the empire. The revolt against the West and the re- emergence of Asia

Works

  • The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Gandhi Mahtma. Beacon Press, Boston, Mass.. 1993, ISBN 0-8070-5909-9 (Original Title: Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth, edited by Pankaj Mishra new ).
  • Butter Chicken in Ludhiana: Travels in Small Town India. Penguin Books, 1995, ISBN 0-14-025067-0.
  • The Picador Book of Journeys. Picador, London 2000, ISBN 0-330-44412-3 ( anthology of short stories ).
  • The Romantics. Random House, New York 2000, ISBN 0-375-50274-2 (Original Title: The Romantics, first edition ).
  • Benares or an education of the heart. Blessing, 2001, ISBN 3-89667-133-2 (Original Title: The Romantics ).
  • Murder in India. The fermenting Hindu nationalism and the pogroms of Gujarat in: Lettre International, LI 58, Autumn 2002.
  • The Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature. Vintage, New York, 2002, ISBN 0-375-71300- X ( anthology of short stories ).
  • The Writer and the World and Literary Occasions by VS Naipaul. A. A. Knopf, New York 2002, ISBN 0-375-40739-1 ( foreword by Pankaj Mishra ).
  • Away: The Indian Writer as an expatriate. Routledge, New York 2003, ISBN 0-415-96896-8 ( anthology of short stories ).
  • Kim, by Rudyard Kipling. ( New and edited with introduction by Pankaj Mishra ) Random House Modern Library, 2004.
  • The Siege of Krishnapur, by JG Farrell. NYRB Books, New York 2004 ( foreword by Pankaj Mishra ).
  • On the way to the Buddha: His life, his teaching, his effect. Blessing, 2005, ISBN 3-89667-134-0 (Original Title: An End to Suffering ).
  • India in Mind. Random House, Vintage Departures Original, New York 2005, ISBN 0-375-72745-0 ( original title: India in mind: an anthology / edited with an introduction by Pankaj Mishra ).
  • Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York 2006, ISBN 0-374-17321-4.
  • The Romantic. Suhrkamp Taschenbuch, Frankfurt aM 2008, ISBN 3-518-45934-1 ( Original title: The romantics ).
  • China Dreams - Between the ideals of the East and the model of the West. In: Lettre International, LI 89, summer 2010 ( Excerpt ).
  • Lure of the West. Modern India. Berenberg Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-937834-49-8 ( Contains a selection of essays from: Temptations of the West: How to be Modern in India, Pakistan and Beyond ).
  • From the Ruins of Empire: The revolt against the West and the re- emergence of Asia. S. Fischer, Frankfurt aM, 2013, ISBN 978-3100488381.
  • Japan's new future - The oldest modern country in Asia between fatigue and confusion. In: Lettre International, LI 103, Winter 2013 ( Excerpt ).
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