Pankaj Mishra is the author of several books, including From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt against the West and the Remaking of Asia, which have been widely translated around the world. He is a columnist for Bloomberg View and the New York Times Book Review, and contributes regularly to the New York Review of Books, London Review of Books, the Guardian, and the New Yorker. His awards include the Leipzig Prize for European Understanding and the Windham-Campbell Prize.