Pankaj Mishra is an essayist and novelist. His books include Age of Anger: A History of the Present, From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia, and the novels The Romantics and Run and Hide. He writes literary and political essays for Guardian, New Yorker and London Review of Books, among other American, British and Indian publications.

A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Mishra has received, among other prizes, Yale University's Windham-Campbell Literature Prize and Germany's prestigious Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding. His new book is The World After Gaza.