# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pankaj-mishra
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:26:47.921Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pankaj-mishra"
name: "Pankaj Mishra"
slug: "pankaj-mishra"
description: "Pankaj Mishra is an Indian essayist, novelist, and socialist. His non-fiction works include The World After Gaza, Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond, along with From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia, and A Great Clamour: Encounters with China and Its Neighbours, and he has published two novels. He is a prolific contributor to periodicals such as The Guardian, Harper's Magazine, The New York Times, The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books and was previously a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. His writings have led to a number of controversies, including disputes with Salil Tripathi, Niall Ferguson, and Jordan Peterson. He was awarded the Windham–Campbell Prize for non-fiction in 2014 and the Weston International Award in 2024."
tagline: "Indian writer"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1969-02-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    handle:    "pankajontech"
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    url:       "http://www.pankajmishra.com"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump